Kannur International Airport (IATA: -, ICAO: VOKN) is an upcoming International Airport under construction at Mattanur in Kannur District, 25 kilometers from the cities of Kannur and Thalassery in the state of Kerala, India. It is being built on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model by the Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL) of which Airports Authority of India has an equity stake of 10 percent. The airport will be the second Greenfield airport to be set up in Kerala after Cochin. The project is spread over 2,000 acres (810 ha). Once completed it will be the fourth and largest international airport in Kerala after Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut. When commercial operations of Kannur International Airport begins, it is expected to reduce the passenger traffic at Calicut international