Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport
Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Airport Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Operator | Lucknow International Airport Limited | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lucknow Metropolitan Region | ||||||||||
| Location | Amausi, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1986 | ||||||||||
| Focus city for | IndiGo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 123 m / 404 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°45′38″N 080°53′25″E / 26.76056°N 80.89028°E | ||||||||||
| Website | CCSIA Lucknow | ||||||||||
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Location in Amausi, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||
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| Statistics (April 2024 – March 2025) | |||||||||||
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Source: AAI | |||||||||||
Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (IATA: LKO, ICAO: VILK) is an international airport serving Lucknow, the capital of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located in Amausi, 14 km (8.7 mi) from the city centre, and was earlier known as ''Amausi Airport''. It is named after Chaudhary Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India. It is owned and operated by the Lucknow International Airport Limited (LIAL), a public–private consortium led by Adani Group.
The airport is the 11th-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in India. It handled over 6.4 million passengers, with more than 49,660 aircraft movements in the fiscal year 2024–25, The CCSIA metro station, southernmost station of the Red Line, lies in front of Terminal-2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, passenger traffic declined by 55.1% in the FY 2020-2021 and aircraft movements by 40.4% in the same year. The airport has three operational terminals, of which Terminal 3 was inaugurated and opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 March 2024.