The air show to celebrate the Air Force Day will impact the operation of flights from different cities to Prayagraj between October 3 and October 8. The mega air show will be organised on October 8 and is likely to be attended by President Draupadi Murmu. Authorities have already cancelled flights from Indore, Raipur, Lucknow and Dehradun. Besides 76 other flights will be cancelled between the given dates. Although the main event is on October 8, flight operations at Prayagraj airport will remain affected from October 2 itself. On October 6 there will be a full dress rehearsal of the event. The Indigo has released information about the cancellation of 76 flights during this period. Apart from this, timings of flights operated by Alliance Air have been changed and will be delayed by one hour. At present flights to Bhubaneswar, Delhi and Mumbai are allowed from October 2 to October 8. Although this may also change later but Prayagraj-Dehradun, Prayagraj-Indore, Prayagraj-Raipur, Prayagraj-Lucknow will remain cancelled for seven consecutive days. Likewise, Prayagraj-Bengaluru service will also remain cancelled on October 3, 5 and 8 and will operate only on October 2, 4, 6 and 7. The Prayagraj-Bhopal flight will also remain cancelled on October 3, 5 and 7 and will operate on the rest of the intervening days.

On the 91st foundation day of India Air Force (IAF) an air show is being organised by the IAF at Sangam. While a number of flights operating from Prayagraj Airport are being cancelled, a radius of three kilometres around Bamrauli Air Station has been declared as ‘no flying zone’.