AviatDataCalicut International Airport CCJ / VOCL
Kozhikode, Kerala · India · Airports Authority of India (AAI) — directly operated by the central statutory body, not a PPP/concession airport
3.9Mpax · 2026
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAVOCL / CCJ
OperatorAirports Authority of India (AAI) — directly operated by the central statutory body, not a PPP/concession airport
Coordinates11.1378°N, 75.9506°E
Elevation343 ft · 105 m
Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30, no DST)
Passengers / yr3,855,618 (2026)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceVOCL — AIP India (AAI eAIP, AD 2 VOCL)
Operating hoursH24 — ATS/tower, AIS briefing, ATS reporting office, MET briefing, fuelling, ground handling and security are all published H24 in AIP India AD 2.3 VOCL; Customs & Immigration run 'as per ATS schedule' (i.e., H24 in practice). Rescue & fire-fighting is CAT IX only 0330-1130 UTC (0900-1700 IST) and drops to CAT VIII the rest of the day, which caps when the largest scheduled aircraft can operate. No de-icing (published NIL; not required in this climate). Airport's own administrative office is Mon-Fri 0400-1230 UTC (0930-1800 IST), closed Sat/Sun/holidays. Twin-aisle (wide-body) aircraft have been barred since the 7 Aug 2020 runway-overrun crash — see note.
TerminalsSingle integrated terminal complex split into domestic and international sections (international status granted Feb 2006; separate international terminal building operational from May 2007); AAI-operated, no PPP concession. Facility is modest in scale relative to India's metro airports and is widely described as capacity-constrained at peak Gulf-bound departure banks.
Runways (1)
- 10/28 · 2,860 m / 9,383 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS CAT I ILS on BOTH runway ends, H24, per AIP India AD 2.19 VOCL: RWY28 LOC ident ICAC 109.5 MHz / glide path 332.6 MHz / DME CH32X; RWY10 LOC ident ICLB 110.7 MHz / glide path 330.2 MHz / DME CH44X. A DVOR/DME (ident CLC, 116.5 MHz) also serves the field. RWY10 is not VOR/DME-only — it has carried its own ILS(Z) RWY10 charted approach at least since the 2020 accident, when Air India Express 1344 was flown as an ILS-Z approach to RWY10 (not a non-precision approach) before overrunning.
Kerala's key gateway for Malappuram-district Gulf-expatriate traffic and a long-time Air India Express base (also served by IndiGo, Air India, Air Arabia, Qatar Airways, Etihad and others) to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Muscat, Sharjah, Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait plus domestic trunk routes to Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. One of India's few tabletop-runway airports, with a steep escarpment beyond both ends of the single 2,860m runway 10/28; both runway ends carry a CAT I ILS (see runway record) — RWY10 is not a VOR/DME-only non-precision runway as sometimes claimed. Twin-aisle (wide-body) aircraft have been prohibited since Air India Express Flight 1344, flying an ILS-Z approach to RWY10 in heavy monsoon rain with a tailwind after aborting a RWY28 attempt for poor visibility, overran the runway end on 7 August 2020 and went down the gorge beyond the then-90m RESA, killing 21 of 190 occupants (both pilots and 19 passengers) and injuring roughly 110. AAI has since been extending the RESA at both ends from 90m to 240m (contractor Gawar Construction reported ~22% complete as of July 2025, originally targeting March 2026 with a requested 3-month extension for monsoon delays); as of this Aug 2026 check, no AAI announcement confirms the extension is complete or that the wide-body ban has been lifted. Ground handling is split between AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL) and Indothai Calicut Private Limited per AIP AD 2.4.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 2 providers
IndoThai Calicut Private Limited (ICPL)
One of CCJ's two authorized ground handlers alongside AIASL: comprehensive ground handling under a 10-year AAI concession (agreement 19 Jul 2021), executed through the IndoThai group's Calicut SPV; listed on AAI's Ground Handling Service Providers list with AERA tariff Order 33/2023-24 dated 25.01.2024, and Calicut appears among operating stations on indothai.in. Email is the IndoThai group head-office contact; no station-specific phone published.
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AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL)
AIASL (AI Airport Services Limited, formerly Air India Air Transport Services Ltd) is the Air India Group's dedicated ground-handling subsidiary; its own "Network" page lists Kozhikode under Southern Region International stations (alongside Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Cochin, Kannur), and AIASL's own site states its Mumbai-based Ground Handling HQ "finalizes Comprehensive Ground Handling Agreements for Air India and Air India Express flights all over its network." This is better-evidenced than the previously drafted "self-handled, Air India Express" claim -- ramp/passenger/baggage/cabin-cleaning turnarounds for AI Express (and any other Air India Group metal) at CCJ are attributable to AIASL. No CCJ station-specific AIASL contact (phone/email) was independently found.
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Aircraft fuel
Available · 3 providers
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL Aviation)
Confirmed as an aviation-fuel provider specifically at Kozhikode/Calicut International (VOCL/CCJ) via a dedicated per-airport listing on AC-U-KWIK (acukwik.com/Basic-Info/VOCL/BHARAT-PETROLEUM), the pilot-facing FBO/fuel industry directory -- corroborating CAPA's airport supplier-profile entry with an airport-specific, non-broker source. BPCL Aviation separately states it refuels at ~29 Indian airports nationally. Specific into-plane operator, hydrant/bowser details and a CCJ station contact were not independently confirmed.
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Shell Aviation (via MRPL)
Confirmed as an aviation-fuel brand at Kozhikode/Calicut International (VOCL/CCJ) via a dedicated AC-U-KWIK listing titled "SHELL AVIATION VIA MRPL" (acukwik.com/Basic-Info/VOCL/SHELL-AVIATION-VIA-MRPL) -- MRPL (Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd) is Shell's into-plane operating partner for this part of South India -- corroborating CAPA's supplier-profile entry with an airport-specific source. Station contact and hydrant/bowser details not independently confirmed.
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HPCL Aviation Service (HP Aviation)
HPCL's own official aviation-services document (hindustanpetroleum.com/documents/pdf/Aviation.pdf), which lists the airports where "HPCL is extending refuelling services," explicitly names "Calicut" among the ~35 Indian airports it fuels at -- independent, airport-specific corroboration of CAPA's supplier-profile entry, going beyond the generic national count. Station-level into-plane arrangement and a CCJ contact were not independently confirmed.
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De-icing
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Part-145 line maintenance
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Part-145 base maintenance
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Component shops & overhaul
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Flight catering
Available
Casino Air Caterers and Flight Services (CAFS)
CAFS's own corporate site (cafs.in) confirms Calicut as one of its 11 flight-kitchen locations across India (alongside Cochin, Kannur, Trivandrum, Mangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur) under its Travel Catering service line -- a company-level self-declaration specific to this airport, not merely a group-wide claim transferred in from another station. Note: the phone listed is CAFS's general corporate contact number (shown site-wide on cafs.in), not confirmed as Calicut-station-specific. The previously drafted hyper-specific facility figures (Building VI/1-2 Karipur address, 26,947 sq ft, 147 staff, 8,000/5,000 meals-per-day capacity) could not be independently verified against any source found and have been removed pending confirmation.
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Aircraft cleaning
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Ground support equipment
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Cargo handling
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Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Limited (KSIE)
KSIE's own site (ksie.net/calicut-air-cargo-complex) documents that KSIE -- a Kerala state-government enterprise, not AAICLAS -- owns and operates the Calicut Air Cargo Complex (CACC) at Karipur/Kondotty: set up in 1995, full Export+Import operation since 1999, IS/ISO 9001:2015 certified, handling fruits/vegetables, meat, fish, general and transshipment cargo, with capacity of ~75-100 MT export/day and ~450-500 MT import/day, and "all facilities for screening, handling and warehousing" on site. Corrects the earlier draft's misattribution of CACC operation to AAICLAS; contact is CACC's own published Unit Head line.
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Aviation security
Available · 2 providers
AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services Company Ltd (AAICLAS)
AAICLAS's own recruitment-results page (aaiclas.aero) lists a past "Result of 10 of 2023 for Calicut," showing some AAICLAS recruitment activity tied to Calicut, but the specific citation previously drafted ("Advt No. 01/2026" naming Calicut) does not check out -- that advertisement number appears on AAICLAS's own site against Dehradun and Trichy, not Calicut. Since KSIE (see separate entry), not AAICLAS, appears to operate the CACC cargo complex and states screening facilities are on-site there, AAICLAS's specific present-day security-screening role at CCJ is unconfirmed; nationally AAICLAS does function as a Regulated Agent providing cargo/baggage security screening at many of its own cargo-terminal stations.
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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
CISF is the central security force deployed under the AAI/Government of India arrangement to carry out airport security functions (passenger/baggage screening, airside/perimeter security) at Calicut International Airport; CISF covers 52 AAI airports nationally per AAI's own figures. CCJ-specific CISF presence is independently documented on Wikipedia's Calicut International Airport article, which records a 2015 on-airport security incident involving CISF personnel.
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Passenger & crew transport
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Flight support
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Hotel & travel
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