Come June 14 next and Allahabad, the Sangam city, will be connected to lucknow, Patna, Indore and Nagpur. The announcement was made by Uttar Pradesh State Civil Aviation Minister Nand Gopal Gupta here on Sunday.
“In the next one month, Allahabad will have operational flights to lucknow, Patna, Nagpur and Indore. The paperwork has been completed for this and green signal has come from Jet Airways to start the service,” Gupta said.
The civil aviation department in Uttar Pradesh has decided to the expand facilities at airport to facilitate night landing in Allahabad. Due to lack of night landing facilities only two flights were operating from here. One to Delhi via Mumbai and the second is from Allahabad to Delhi.
Now regular flight service from Allahabad to Patna beside,16 Flights will start from Allahabad to Indore and Nagpur from June, the minister said.
He said: “In future regional connectivity will increase as more flights will be added to the network. Under the regional connectivity scheme, the distance of lucknow will now be completed in half an hour. It takes five to six hours so far.”
Apart from this, he said, there will increase in connectivity from Bihar, MP, Maharashtra which will encourage the business environment of the city. “State and central government are working together to facilitate air travel and to connect more cities for flight services,” minister said.
In the coming days, 13 cities will be connected from Allahabad, which will include Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Gorakhpur, Dehradun, Kolkata, Raipur and Pune.
Meanwhile, 11 new airports are being developed in the state.
The minister said in the next 15 months, air connectivity will start from Aligarh, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Chitrakoot, Jhansi, Moradabad, Sonbhadra, Allahabad and Shravasti.