Dec 09, 2018, 04:00AM IST

Source: GIST

Kannur district of Kerala is finally going to get its functional airport from today. Kannur international is going to be the fourth such airport in Kerala, the only State in the country to have 4 international airports. The other three are at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode. The airport is owned and operated by public–private consortium - Kannur International Airport Limited. This will be the second greenfield airport in Kerala, being built on Public Private Partnership model in an area of about 2,000 acres. As per the Information Memorandum prepared by SBI CAPS, the airport is expected to have an approximate annual traffic of 1.65 million international and 0.16 million domestic passengers in FY 2018-19. Also, The KIAL is slated to serve more than 1.5 million international passengers annually.