AviatDataChaudhary Charan Singh International Airport LKO / VILK
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh · India · Lucknow International Airport Limited (LIAL; filed on some AAI/corporate records as 'Adani Lucknow International Airport Limited') — controlled by Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (Adani Enterprises subsidiary), operating under a 50-year AAI concession effective 2 Nov 2020; Airports Authority of India retains ownership of the underlying land and assets
6.4Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAVILK / LKO
OperatorLucknow International Airport Limited (LIAL; filed on some AAI/corporate records as 'Adani Lucknow International Airport Limited') — controlled by Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (Adani Enterprises subsidiary), operating under a 50-year AAI concession effective 2 Nov 2020; Airports Authority of India retains ownership of the underlying land and assets
Coordinates26.7619°N, 80.8833°E
Elevation406 ft · 124 m
Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30, no DST)
Passengers / yr6,438,506 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceVILK — AIP India (AAI eAIP, AD 2 VILK)
Operating hoursH24 — ATS, fuelling and customs/immigration for scheduled international flights all H24; non-scheduled international movements require 48 hrs PPR notice, non-scheduled domestic 24 hrs PPR, and military/non-scheduled operators need AOCC clearance; airport operator's administrative office Mon-Fri 0400-1300 UTC, Sat 0400-0830 UTC, closed Sun/holidays.
TerminalsThree terminals: T1 (built 1986, original terminal) and T2 (opened 2 Jun 2012, ~17,000 sqm, ~4M pax/yr design capacity); T3 (opened in phases 2023-24, ~111,367 sqm with 7 aerobridges) has Phase 1 capacity of roughly 8M pax/yr (4,000 peak-hour pax), rising toward ~13M pax/yr once Phase 2 completes (targeted ~2026-27, part of a roughly Rs 10,000-10,700 crore expansion aimed at 39M pax/yr long-term). NOTE: which terminal(s) currently handle domestic vs international traffic has changed more than once since T3 opened (domestic reportedly moved into T3 in Apr 2024; a later shift of international traffic into T3, with T1/T2 becoming domestic-only, was reported as delayed at one point and then reported as current by mid-2026) — reconfirm the live domestic/international terminal split with the operator before publishing rather than treating this as settled.
Runways (1)
- 09/27 · 2,744 m / 9,003 ft · 45 m wide · Single strip, tarmac/asphalt for 2210 m plus concrete for the final 534 m at the Rwy 27 threshold end (PCN 76/F/C/W/T tarmac section, 74/R/C/W/T concrete section, per AAI eAIP AD 2.12) · ILS CAT IIIB on Rwy 27 (ident ILUC; LOC 109.900 MHz, GP 333.800 MHz, DME CH36X), H24, with RVR monitoring (TDZ/MID/END); Rwy 09 non-precision approach only (SALS 420 m approach lighting)
Uttar Pradesh's principal air gateway and India's 11th-busiest airport, handling approximately 6.44 million passengers in FY2024-25 (Apr 2024-Mar 2025, AAI data, up roughly 4% YoY with about 49,662 aircraft movements). IndiGo is the leading carrier at LKO alongside Air India, Air India Express, SpiceJet and Akasa Air, operating an extensive network of domestic and regional routes. Nonstop international service connects to Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Bangkok and Singapore; as of 2026 this international traffic is reported to be concentrated at Terminal 3 with T1/T2 handling domestic, though that split has shifted before and should be reconfirmed against the operator. Rwy 27 carries a CAT IIIB ILS to support the dense winter-fog low-visibility operations typical of the Indo-Gangetic plain; Rwy 09 has non-precision approach only. Operated by Lucknow International Airport Limited, an Adani Airport Holdings/Adani Enterprises-controlled entity, under a 50-year AAI concession effective 2 Nov 2020.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Unconfirmed
Indo Thai Airport Management Services Pvt Ltd
Understood to hold the primary ramp/passenger/baggage ground-handling contract for domestic and international carriers at CCSIA under India's multi-GHA policy. AISATS (the Adani-SATS ground-handling JV Adani uses at several of its own airports) does not list Lucknow among its stations, which is consistent with a separate local operator here — but this company's identity and scope of work at LKO specifically could not be independently corroborated: no resolving company website was found, and no acquisition by Adani was found in Adani Enterprises' own 2025-2026 press-release archive or in aviation trade press. The previously drafted "AGHPort / 99%-acquired by Adani Airport Holdings, Dec 2025" narrative is unverifiable and has been dropped pending confirmation; retained as unconfirmed rather than deleted because CCSIA is a scheduled-service international airport that must have an operating GHA.
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Aircraft fuel
Available
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL)
Into-plane Jet A-1/ATF supply at CCSIA; IOCL is India's largest PSU oil marketer and the near-universal incumbent aviation-fuel supplier at Indian airports absent a competing JV, making it the overwhelmingly likely fuel handler at a state-capital airport like Lucknow. The draft's specific claim that Lucknow is fed by IOCL's dedicated cross-country ATF pipeline grouped with mega-hubs Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata could not be verified (IOCL's aviation-fuel pages were unreachable) and looks overstated given Lucknow's much smaller traffic tier — dedicated pipeline-fed ATF in India is typically reserved for the handful of largest hubs, with mid-tier airports more commonly served via depot/tanker; that infrastructure detail should be treated as unconfirmed. The IndianOil-Skytanking (IOSL) joint-venture location list excludes Lucknow, consistent with IOCL fuelling the airport directly rather than via that JV.
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
Air Works India Engineering Pvt Ltd
Air Works' own CAR-145 Approved Maintenance Organisation documentation lists a facility address at Amousi, Lucknow - 226009, UP (Amausi is indeed the correct locality name for CCSIA). Air Works describes itself as India's largest transit/line-maintenance provider to foreign carriers, operating across a pan-India network of 19 international airports; exact scope of work and operating hours at LKO specifically were not independently itemised.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Unconfirmed
Indo Thai Airport Management Services Pvt Ltd
Aircraft interior/cabin cleaning is typically bundled into Indian GHAs' comprehensive ground-handling scope; not separately itemised for Lucknow in available sources, and the operator identity above is unconfirmed.
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Ground support equipment
Unconfirmed
Indo Thai Airport Management Services Pvt Ltd
As CCSIA's apparent ground handler this entity would be expected to operate ramp GSE (tugs, GPUs, belt loaders, baggage tractors) for turnarounds, but fleet/ownership details are not independently itemised and the parent-company attribution above is itself unconfirmed.
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Cargo handling
Available
Airports Authority of India (AAI) - Lucknow Cargo Terminal
AAI-branded Common User Domestic Cargo Terminal at CCSIA, opened March 2022, raising cargo-handling capacity by 40% to approximately 7,000 tonnes/year — a figure independently corroborated against public airport reporting. X-ray screening, refrigerated containers and a cold-storage room support perishable exports (e.g. meat/produce to the Middle East) alongside e-commerce, courier, mail, general cargo and valuables traffic. Note that CCSIA's terminal/airside operations transferred to the Adani-led Lucknow International Airport Limited (LIAL) under a 2019, 50-year PPP concession; cargo-terminal operations were carved out and retained under AAI at several of these first-tranche Adani-concessioned airports, which is consistent with (but does not independently confirm) AAI still running this facility departmentally rather than LIAL. Not confirmed as a BCAS-certified AAICLAS Regulated Agent site (AAICLAS's published RA list covers Chennai, Kolkata, Surat and Bhopal only).
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Aviation security
Available
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) - Airport Security Group Lucknow
Provides statutory passenger/baggage security screening, access control and anti-sabotage cover at CCSIA under its Airport Security Group (ASG) Lucknow unit; confirmed via CISF's own operational communications referencing "ASG Lucknow" and a named Sr. Commandant/CASO. CISF covers aviation security at the great majority of India's civil airports under BCAS oversight, including privately-operated ex-AAI airports such as this one.
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Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
Not listed
Hotel & travel
Available
Ramada Encore Hotel by Wyndham (CCSIA Transit Hotel)
23-room airside transit hotel in Terminal 3, located between the Domestic and International Arrival areas, offering 6/12/24-hour stay slots with buffet breakfast included — directly confirmed on the airport operator's own site (ccsia-lucknow.adaniairports.com/en/airport-services/transit-hotel), which names the property "Ramada Encore Hotel by Wyndham" and matches the room count, terminal location and stay-slot options exactly. Marketed for passenger layovers; no dedicated airline crew-accommodation contract was confirmed, so it should be treated as a plausible but unconfirmed crew-layover option specifically.
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