GORAKHPUR:
Kushinagar airport is 90% ready and
flights will take off from second week of October, said, coordinator of Kushinagar
International Airport, Anil Dwivedi, on Friday.
He said, “The airport is almost ready and flights will commence from the middle of this month. In view of the pandemic, the government will take a decision on international flights. On the day of inauguration, the Centre may allow an international flight to take off.”
Cause for another cheer was that
passenger movement at Gorakhpur airport crossed 2,000 mark on Friday, for the first time since the pandemic began.
Dwivedi, who’s also director of Gorakhpur airport, said, “There’s a demand for more flights, but our terminal and parking area is small and we need to expand both. Currently, we have nine flights every day with 1,400 passengers, mostly migrant labourers. They came home after the lockdown and are returning to their workplace, causing a spike in passenger movement.”