Monday, 15 June 2026
Monday, 15 June 2026
Noida International Airport on Monday received its first landing with an IndiGo flight arriving from Lucknow' Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, officials said. The event was marked with a water cannon salute.
The event was shortly followed by the first takeoff from the greenfield project by a flight to Lucknow. The plane carried around 170 farmers, including women from the Jewar region whose land was acquired by the state government for the first phase development of the airport.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu flagged off the special civil flight.
"I am very happy to participate in the inauguration of civil operations at Jewar Airport. This has been long pending. People have been waiting for a long time. Finally, we have started today.
"I was talking to passengers, and they were also waiting for a long time because this area itself, the Noida International Airport, is connected to more than two to three crore people within a one-hour radius. Multiple cities and multiple towns are connected, all of which feel that this is a very good place for them to, you know, go to other destinations," he told reporters.
He said airlines had begun operations with four destinations and that IndiGo had launched services to four destinations on Monday.
He added that over the next four to six months, the airline was expected to connect the airport to 16 more destinations, calling it a significant opportunity for residents of Noida and nearby areas.
IndiGo flight 6E 2278 took off from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow, at 7.12 am and landed at Noida International Airport at 7.58 am, according to airport officials. According to reports, the flight, which arrived from Lucknow, is scheduled to leave for Bengaluru from the newly operational airport and reach Bengaluru around 11:05 am.
The arrival marked the beginning of flight operations at the Jewar-based airport, an ambitious project aimed at enhancing air connectivity between western Uttar Pradesh, the National Capital Region, and other parts of the country.
The first flight took off around 8.19 am and had on board, among other passengers, Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh and officials of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, including its CEO Rakesh Singh, additional CEO Shailendra Bhatia, PCS officer and former Jewar SDM Abhay Singh.
Officials said the new air connectivity is expected to benefit business travellers, students, professionals and other passengers by providing an additional travel option and supporting regional development.
The airport has been developed with a focus on creating a multimodal transport hub, with connectivity through air, road and other modes of transport, officials added.
