Kannur Airport: A Reality by 2011?
As we Kannur patriots and those planning to travel to Kannur in a flight wait for more news on the proposed Airport in this city of Cannanore, about 208 of the 2,000 acres earmarked for the project had already been acquired by the State Government back in 2007! With the recent cabinet approval, it seems that the city of Kannur will be catapulted to the Indian Air Route Map in less than 3-4 years.
Kannur Airport is expected to provide a major boost of the Malabar, North Kerala in terms of business, in terms of tourism revenue and help its thriving textile industry. Kannur is on of the eight best textile centers in India.
An Airport City is also planned in Kannur where plantation tourism will be promoted. KINFRA or Kerala Infrastructure Development Corporation is the agency designated to proceed the work.
The airport coming up at Moorkhanparamba near Mattanur has received the Environment Ministry’s clearance as well as the permission from the Aviation Ministry to operate with a single runway recently, after clearing the techno-economic and feasibility hurdles on the decade-old proposal.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I wish all the success to the Kannur Airport project and let us HOPE it will be a reality by 2011, eventhough I do not see much interest/progress/momentum from the present Kerala government.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:58 am
include attached latest news in full
The Hindu Business Line : Kannur airport to be developed on BOO model31 May 2008 … Update at 1430 hrs (IST) … THIRUVANANTHAPUARAM: The proposed Kannur airport in north Kerala would be developed on Build, Operate and Own (BOO) model with the state government holding 26 per cent stake in the venture.
The proposal in this regard was approved by the State Cabinet on Saturday, said the Chief Minister Mr V S Achuthanandan.
The partner for building the greenfield airport would be selected through transparent bidding, he said. The Cabinet also gave its nod for setting up IT parks in Kollam, Alappuzha, Thrissur, Kannur and Kasargode districts.
The land required for locating the parks would identify and handed over to state-run Kerala State IT Infrastructure Ltd (KSITIL) by Revenue Department.
Each park would have 25 to 100 acres of land, he said. The government had earlier announced its plan to develop IT parks in all districts as part of the strategy to make Kerala a major IT destination based on the hub-and-spoke model.
An Aqua Economic Park would be developed at Katungallur in Ernakulam district for breeding and marketing of a wide variety of decocrative fish, he said. – PTI
December 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Prospects bleak for Karipur
By Our Staff Reporter
KASARAGOD, OCT. 25. The Rs.80-crore development project of the Bajpe airport in Mangalore is likely to have an adverse impact on the prospects of the Karipur airport in Kozhikode.
With a 8,000-odd ft second runway in place, bigger planes, including airbuses, will be able to operate from Mangalore. The expansion project also envisages the setting up of two more hangars, a darkroom, a cargo terminal and an airport hijacking control room. International flights are likely to be operated from there once the work is completed in a year.
Mangalore SEZ
The cargo terminal is being established in anticipation of an increase in cargo traffic following the Karnataka Government’s plan to have a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for Mangalore. The SEZ will involve an investment of over Rs.23,000 crores.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has acquired more land and placed a request for more land with the Karnataka Government to enable the construction of a new and larger terminal.
With the opening of the new international terminal, the distance between Mangalore city and the airport will be reduced by a few kilometres.
Gulf expatriates
The expansion of the Bajpe airport is no good news for the Karipur airport as a large number of people from this part of the State may choose the Bajpe airport for their journey to the Gulf.
It is said that at least one person, if not more, in each family in Kasaragod district works in the Gulf. It is estimated that there are about four lakh people from the district working in the Gulf countries.
Against a distance (by road) of 220 km from Kasaragod town to Karipur, the distance between Kasaragod town and the Bajpe airport will be about 70 km only.
Kannur airport
While the development of the Bajpe airport will have a definite impact on the passenger traffic at Karipur, it will invariably put a question mark over the proposed airport in Kannur. It will be a matter of serious deliberation as to whom the Kannur airport will cater to, given the fact that there will be two major airports on the south and north of Kannur town, situated at a distance of 120 km and 150 km respectively.
There has been a growing demand from the political parties and people in Kannur district to have an airport in the district ever since the upgradation of the Karipur airport some years ago.
Like Kasaragod, a large number of people from Kannur work in the Gulf countries.
December 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Kannur airport proposal by itself does not indicate
a mentally sound one.
Calicut and Mangalore together does not have more than 1.5 million passengers. They are both loss making – where is Kannur getting its passengers from and how can it ever make a single pie profit ?
Obviously the feasibility study is totally
doctored according to the needs of some land mafia.
Till date except for one Leela group chairman, no business group is enthusiastic about this.
Well I won’t be suprised if this land acquisition end up as a big scandal when all the land goes into the hands of some mafioso linked to Kodiyeri-Pinarayi and other leaders of other political parties.
Isn’t there any studied person in Kannur to tell this to Kannur’s hapless people whose land is
being taken away ?
December 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
This is an absurd and ridiculous idea of a dumb, useless govt. Even in most advanced countries you cannot operate 3 airports with 250 km distance. How these bastard politicians fool people and waste taxpayer money is unbelievable. They should spend the money planned on kannur airport, on making a good highway from kannur to the Calicut airport, why not use the money in making the NH 17 a 8 lane expressway, so that ppl can reach Mangalore or calicut faster.
why dont the morons who support all these plans, ask to make an airport in every village. The shame is that keralites are bhikhari people, they go and beg for jobs in gulf and elsewhere in india but never allow any business to operate in kerala. How long will this labor jobs in gulf will continue? very soon, there will be new technologies for running vehicles, and when oil dries up, all these airports will become junkyards. Rather than wasting money on useless airports and wasteful things, the bastard politicians of kerala, should try to improve the everyday life of people, what is the condition of roads in Kochi, and everywhere else in kerala, what about garbage in kochi, the city becomes a slum in rainy season…? it is a shame, even in Bihar, UP, MP backward states, center has made better roads than kerala, because kerala’s politicians are hijras, dhoti-wearing morons, nobody in Delhi gives them any respect, just go to even small towns in other states, they have better infrastructure than the biggest cities of kerala like cochin, calicut, T’puram… kerala will remain like this for ever- a circus full of clowns.
December 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
@ Jai Menon,
I think Kannur will benefit a lot from the airport since there is a blooming textile industry in Kannur..however, you are right about the development in kerala which is pretty much slow as a snail. See this video.
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=BzshclLD0hI
December 31st, 2008 at 6:40 am
I hope the kannur international airport will became successful by 2011,it helps the good development of kannur District Including mattanur municipality
February 20th, 2009 at 2:24 am
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August 31st, 2009 at 1:12 am
Mattanur airport will give kerala a good boost to tourism industry and also there are a large number of people in the area living in various gulf countries who can be benefitted to a larger extent. the whole region will be developed very fast and also the industries especially handloom industry will help to earn more foreign exchange. People want to save time and reach their destination as fast as possible and more the demand, more the flights and more the profit. Definitely, Cannanore airport will get all the money invested for constructing will get them back in five years time. So, dod not dealy any further.
Best wishes
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
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September 4th, 2009 at 1:46 am
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September 4th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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September 8th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Waiting for the wonderful reality to land at Kannur Airport, before retiring from overseas.
Any body have a clue about the final plans, when it will be completed and ready for operation.
Thanks & Goodluck
December 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
I am anxiously waiting for the Airport to become a reality. It will be a good boost to the economy of North malabar. The rate of return on the investment made on this airport will be definitely the highest anyone can get.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
i wish all the success to the kannur airport and i hope it will be a reality of 2011.
December 11th, 2009 at 5:24 am
I am waiting for the India’s wonderful unimaginable reality to the land at Kannur Airport. And I wish all success to the Airport. I hope positvely it will be a reality of 2012 ?
December 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I wish all the succes kannur airport wiil be a reality 2011
December 28th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Kannur airport makes no sense. A stupid idea. In such a small state three aiports, makes no sense. What the authority should do? Develop the Calicut airport more and link the aiport with good roads with other parts of Calicut, Kannur, Wynad and Kasargod districts.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:36 am
I am from Kannur. I always feel difficulties to travel upto Kozhikokde Airport due to very poor road. I have seen from my childhood on the fast track road plan but I have no hope to see in reality in the near future. Thanks to British Rule. It was thier kindness that we are enjoying with the existing tiny road. Indians are very poor in thinking for themsevelves. But they really use their brain for the West or for other loards. Let us have at least an Airport so that we do not need to waste our time on the road while coming for 3 to 4 days leave to kerala, for an gulf employee like me. We all know that our common peaple are fools. They believe all drama of the polititions and go behind them without using their common sense. They will cut the trees, burn animals live if thier leader orders. Leader has the licence to change their words every moment and join with any tom,dick and harry to get personal benefit. Let us wish to have go back to monarchy or foreigh rule to realize once agin the importance of freedom and the greatness of Democracy
January 19th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Its good to see something good deals are coming up for Kannur.
But there should be a wheel in wheel without any signal with the progress in work
TO DREAMS COMES TRUE ………
February 25th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Nothing is going to happen with these dirty polititcs in kerala…..othere than cheating peopels with wrong offerings and their followers are waiting for those……
March 13th, 2010 at 9:02 am
how long we are waiting.when it wil come reality.this our prestige issue.
i hope in this year the work wil stars
March 13th, 2010 at 9:40 am
IT WIL CHANGE FACE OF KANNUR.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Whats the need of an airport in kannur? even in the foreign countries you can’t find 3 airports near to each other, even in the largest exporter in the world, germany. This whole mumbo jumbo airport is for the benefit of some crooked politicians , mainly from kannur, eying on the land and the real estate possibilities. Do we buy a tea estate to drink a cup of tea? Right now what I’m aware of is that the farmers and people in and around the chalode,mattanur,edakkadu are protesting against the evacuation from their fields and houses.
There’s no need for this airport.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
This too, at the NRIs like Mr.Rajeevan who commented before-> what you need is good roads connecting the calicut and kannur cities, good rail transport, metro lines. Even in the most developed countries people wont travel by flight for small distances, they take trains, as they don’t want to pollute the sky too. Your three days vacation should not be in the expense of some poor land workers and natives who are going to lose their motherland and hard earned homes.
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Hi,i belong 2 kannur, i honestly beleive that Kannur airport will give a major boost 2 north malabar,.Whether these delhites like or not, we would like 2b optimistic, i wish all success 2 kannur airport, lets dream the day of aeroplanes flying above our heads
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:15 am
when we can travell through the kannur airport ? our goverment and teams dragging the project!ie, no pushing mentality through the government authority.my request please open eyes for further progress.
anyhow wait and see the action !
April 5th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I WISH KANNUR AIRPORT IS IN QUIKLY ALL KANNUR PEOPLE ARE WAITTING THE AIRPORT BY SHIJU SREEKRISHNA CHALODE
May 13th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
come on…come on. how long do we have to wait?
May 16th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
COME ON YAR…..START………..THE WRK
ANY ONE CAN SAY ANY THING .NO LIMIT…LET US THINK POTVE…..WISHING SUCCESS……….
May 16th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
BECAUSE I AM FROM SILVASSA/DAMAN. IF ANY EMERGENCY WE MUST HAVE TO GO TO MUMBAI 7HRS JOURNEY+ WAITING …….THEN 6HRS TO CALICUT. THEN 4 HRS TO KANNUR…….17 HRS MINIMUM….BY TRAIN REACH BY 18HRS……..TO KNNUR BY KONKAN. LET US KANNUR PEOPLE ENJOY TH EFACILITY ….DONT THINK NEGATIVE………
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July 24th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
North Malabar has long been neglected from the rest of Kerala state and its high time we do something good for this part. Almost all the development work has been going to Southern Kerala and at the maximum only upto Calicut.
My suggestion is to form a separate state for North malabar and make Kannur as the capital of this. Or at least they can change the Kerala capital from Trivandrum to Kannur so that these areas also get some visibility and development.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:23 am
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July 31st, 2010 at 3:53 am
Kannur airport is essentialfordevelopmentof tuorism and industry innorth malabr. Somanytuorist placesarethere, like bekal fort,number of beaches ,valapatanmriver etc .we want airport and otherfacilities like roads new railwayruots etc.but i cant expect therealization of airport in2011! Becausesomany problem arefaced inlandarcquasition for airportand roads. Kanurhas somany polititians able tocontrolling kerala and delhi. (kodiery, pinarayi, sudakaran, e ahammed etc) unfortunately thesemen are not worked fortheir native district. Plz work for our dream our airport and development.
September 4th, 2010 at 5:53 am
I’m Pray for Kannur Air Port, when it comes true.
October 7th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I think current kerala gov. is thinking that building an airport is something like making a tent for their party dharna. That is all they know probably….that is why they are promising it will be completed by 2011.. This promise is too stupid and it cannot be done that easily…
Instead of supporting all these small small airports it they extend the facilities of the current one whicht is in kozhikkode…that will be nice for all of us living in malabar.
October 15th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Expectations for development of Kannur were very high when the CPM led communist government before 4 years and Kannur airport was one of them.Inspite of having most of the influential top leader of CPM from Kannur,they failed to deliver any good things to Kannur. Only reason..they know that people of Kannur cannot think beyond partyline ansd will support them evenif they dont do any thing to anything.
Negliance towards Malabar is clear when you travel down south where u will have better roads, better infrastructure and developments. Nothing happened while UDF was ruling Kerala also. And I have feeling that nothing will be done for Kannur come next decade also.
We need a people movement by truly committed people to change this. May be we start the movement for a separate state Malabar to teach the se polititans a lesson
October 15th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Expectations for development of Kannur were very high when the CPM led communist government came in power before 4 years and Kannur airport was one of them.Inspite of having most of the influential leaders of CPM from Kannur,they failed to deliver any good things to Kannur. Only reason..they know that people of Kannur cannot think beyond partylines and will support them evenif they dont do any thing to development.
Negliance towards Malabar is clear when you travel down south where you will have better roads, better infrastructure and developments. Nothing happened while UDF was ruling Kerala also. And I have feeling that nothing will be done for Kannur come next decade also.
We need a people movement by truly committed people to change this. May be we may start the movement for a separate state Malabar to teach these polititans a lesson
November 20th, 2010 at 3:41 am
At last there is an announcement of inauguration of commencement of the air port work by The Hounourable Miinister for Home affairs,reported as announced by the Honourable Minister for Civil Aviation, will be heled on 17th Dec 2010. (Published in the Manorama on 20th Nov 2010)
Hopes fruitfullness of our needs soon.
December 17th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Yes its gonna be real, Nw the inaugural process goin on..
December 17th, 2010 at 9:20 am
The foundation stone had been laid. Now Kannur International Airport is to be a reality. It is the aspiration of the people of Kannur and its neighbouring districs. It is to commence its operation within three years
December 24th, 2010 at 3:41 am
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December 26th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
The suffering and pain are always obligatory for wide consciousness and deep heart
January 10th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Kudos to everyone who managed KIAL as in reality.
Congrats to all malabaris..we are getting one more international airport soon…
Thanks to nayanar who took initiative and Achuthanandhan for land aquisition and foundation stone…
regards
baiju
March 8th, 2011 at 6:28 am
I do agree that Malabar area in general and Kannur in particular has been ignored in many development areas which was during the several and past poor governance. Providing the basic and best infrastructure to any place in general is the first step towards any future development and Kannur of course has its potential and deserve to have its own identity. Remember the proverb that well begun is half done. Government should have plans to make the best use of the proposed facility for overall development of Kannur and Kerala. Unfortunately the politicians from Kerala in general spend more time on fighting among themselves inside the state and they do not have any plan, strategy or personality to get the shares that the state deserves from the central government. They are politically blinded and do not have even the basic courtesy/capability to take forward the state issues to the concerned authority to address the core issue, however they are smart to save their ass by always blaming the central government and others.Many seems to speak a lot but not really concerned about the larger interest and if they are in the opposition party they are of the fear about their credibility and create obstacles for any new development plans at the cost of the larger common public.Let us only hope that things will improve in future with more awareness among these politicians.
March 15th, 2011 at 3:59 am
good project
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