UP gets its 8th airport: Check flight routes, fare and other details

Flight operations at the much-awaited Bareilly airport have started. With this, Bareilly becomes the eighth airport to operate in Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Prayagraj and Hindon. Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri virtually flagged off the first flight from the newly upgraded Bareilly Airport to Delhi on 8 March 2021. The airport has been upgraded for commercial flight operations under UDAN – RCS.

The inaugural flight had an all-woman crew.

“With this, Bareilly becomes the 56th airport to be successfully operationalized under UDAN,” the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a tweet.

Apart from enhancing the aerial connectivity of the region, the flight operations will have a watershed impact on trade, tourism and the local economy.