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PM Narendra Modi to open Uttar Pradesh's ninth airport in Kushinagar today

Uttar Pradesh will on Wednesday get its ninth airport handling scheduled passenger flights when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Kushinagar International Airport.
PM Narendra Modi to open Uttar Pradesh's ninth airport in Kushinagar today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh will on Wednesday get its ninth airport handling scheduled passenger flights when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Kushinagar International Airport.
A senior UP government official said in 2017 only four airports in the state had regular flights - Lucknow, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Agra. While Prayagraj, Kanpur, Bareilly and Hindon have since been added that list, Kushinagar will get onboard Wednesday - indicating a more than doubling of operational airports in the recent past.
The state's biggest airport - in Greater Noida's Jewar - is going to become operational by mid-2024 and serve as Delhi-NCR's second hub.
Ayodhya is going to get Maryada Puroshottam Shri Ram Airport.
Once these two are ready, the number of international airports in UP will rise to five - up from the three that include Lucknow, Varanasi and Kushinagar.
Bareilly Airport, which opened a few months back, now has direct connectivity with Mumbai and Bengaluru and the jhumka city is now the aerial gateway to nearby industrial areas and the Kumaon hills. A senior UP government official said work is currently on at airports in 10 more cities - Aligarh, Azamgarh, Moradabad, Shravasti, Chitrakoot, Sonbhadra, Agra, Saharanpur, Noida and Ayodhya.
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