What airport is CCU?
CCU is
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
Kolkata, India
Why the code is CCU
CalCUtta, the city's name until 2001.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- CCU
- ICAO code
- VECC
- Airport
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
- City
- Kolkata, India
- Code origin
- Documented
The third of India's big renamed-city codes. Dum Dum, the neighbourhood the airport sits in, gave its name to the expanding bullet, which was manufactured at the arsenal there.
The other code, VECC
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, CCU, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, VECC, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why VECC looks nothing like CCU.
Common questions
- What airport is CCU?
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, in Kolkata, India.
- Why is Kolkata's airport called CCU?
- CalCUtta, the city's name until 2001.
- What is the difference between CCU and VECC?
- CCU is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. VECC is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
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Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)