Thursday, July 24, 2014

UP signs MoU to upgrade Allahabad, Kanpur, Agra airports

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government and the Airport Authority of India Limited (AAI) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to upgrade airports in Uttar Pradesh for commercial purposes.

There are regular domestic flights to Allahabad and Agra, where the airports are operational from Bamrauli Air Force and Kheria Air Force stations respectively.
Although the Delhi-Kanpur-Kolkata flights were launched two years ago, they have been discontinued at Kanpur Airport at Chakeri Air Force station because of poor commercial viability.
Meerut's BR Ambedkar Airport at Partapur is used only for unscheduled flights. There are also airports in Moradabad in West UP and Faizabad in East UP, but they aren't big enough to handle commercial flights.
23/07/14 Piyush Srivastava/Business Today
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