Kannur International Airport
Kannur, India
Kannur International Airport (IATA: CNN, ICAO: VOKN) is an international airport serving the city of Kannur, the Mahé district of Puducherry and the rest of northern Kerala in India. It is located in Mattanur, 28 km (17 mi) east of Kannur and 24 km (15 mi) east of Thalassery. It is owned and operated by Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL), a public–private consortium. The airport opened for commercial operations on 9 December 2018. The airport served one million passengers in just nine months since commercial operations began. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the airport could maintain stable growth, and it achieved the milestone of two million passengers in the twenty-third month of operations in November 2020. Though several international airlines have reportedly shown interest in operating from Kannur, they are unable to operate regularly scheduled flights from Kannur International Airport as the airport lacks point of call status. The airport handled 1.5 million passengers in 2025, marking the highest annual passenger traffic since it began operations. The previous record was 1.47 million passengers in 2019. The first aircraft to land was an Indian Air Force (IAF)
Airport data from the OpenFlights open database.