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Kingfisher and Jet Airways planes on Delhi airport runway: now both defunct airlines in the new Indian aviation scape. Flying to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, West Bengal from New Delhi airport. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is an airport located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, serving the greater Kolkata metro area. The airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. From April 2006 to March 2012, it was the fifth busiest airport in the country in terms of overall passenger traffic, and ninth busiest in terms of international passenger traffic. It is located approximately 17 km from Kolkata's city centre. Spread over an area of 1670 acres, Kolkata airport is the largest in eastern Ind