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Now get ready to fly from Delhi NCR’s second airport from Friday

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New Delhi: Delhi NCR’s second airport is all set to start its operations from Friday, October 11, 2019.

The first flight of ‘Hindon airport’ will take off from here by Heritage Aviation company’s nine-seater plane for Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district. Hindon airport, which is around 40 kms from the IGI Airport in Delhi, is located close to Indian Air Force’s (IAF) station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

With the operations starting at Hindon airport, it will reduce the load at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.

The CEO of Heritage Aviation Private Ltd, Rohit Mathur told news agency ANI that after the first flight to Pithoragarh the company plans to launch flights for Dehradun, Hubli, Shimla and other popular tourist destinations.

“A 9-seater aircraft of our company will take the first flight for Pithoragarh from the Hindon airport on October 11, the price has for one seat in the aircraft has been kept at ₹2.5 thousand by us. After this we are planning to launch flights for Dehradun, Hubli, Shimla, Faizabad, Gulbarga, Nasik and Coonoor among other popular destinations,” Mathur said.

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“We have made all arrangements for the security of Hindon Airport. 55 policemen who have received special training will be deployed at the airport to ensuring that there is no inconvenience to passengers on the first flight from the airport on October 11,” District Collector Ajay Shankar Pandey told ANI.

The Indian Air Force permitted the use of the airbase for civilian flights under regional air connectivity scheme UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik). UDAN seeks to connect unserved and underserved airports as well as make flying more affordable.

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