Kannur: Union Minister Suresh Prabhu and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the Kannur International Airport this morning making Kerala the only State in India to have four such airports.
Spread across 2,000 acres and costing close to Rs.1,800 crore, the new airport in Kannur can handle around 2,000 passengers at a time and will serve more than 1.5 million international passengers yearly. The runway length of the airport is 3,050 metres and will be extended to 4,000 metres. The massive 4,000-metre runway is considered comfortable for take-off and landing of wide-bodied planes like Boeing 737 and Airbus A-380.
