Lucknow, Jagran Correspondent. On Sunday, Akasa Air Flight, another domestic flight network for city dwellers, joined the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport.
Akasa Air is starting a one-stop service from Lucknow to Chennai via Bangalore and from Lucknow to Mumbai via Mumbai.
On Saturday, Akasa Air CEO Vinay Dubey, Co-Founder Neelu Khatri, Co-Founder Praveen Iyer, and
Vice President Harjinder Singh handed over the boarding pass of the first passenger to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said that Uttar Pradesh had benefited immensely from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Udaan’ scheme to facilitate the common people to board the plane.
Prime Minister Modi had dreamed of an ‘air flight of a common man wearing slippers,’ better air services in Uttar Pradesh, and this dream is coming true.
The Chief Minister said that this service from Bangalore and Mumbai to Lucknow should also be connected to Varanasi.
The Chief Minister said that before 2017, the state had airports mainly in Lucknow and Varanasi.
Gorakhpur and Agra had partially functional airports. Then air service was available from only four airports to 25 destinations; today,
nine airports are in operation, and work on ten is in progress. Today, the air service network is connected to 75 destinations from the state.
Air service will start in Aligarh, Azamgarh, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Chitrakoot, Shravasti, and Sonbhadra.
An airport is being built in Chitrakoot at a very high altitude. Uttar Pradesh is soon going to become a state with five international airports.
Presently there are Varanasi, Kushinagar, and Lucknow International Airports.
The construction of airports is going on in Jewar and Ayodhya. There are immense possibilities in this field.
Akasa Air will get its benefit. The Chief Minister asked Air Akasa officials to start air service from Lucknow, Varanasi, or Kushinagar to Kathmandu.
There is also a demand for air flight services from here to Buddhist countries.
