Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu while addressing a gathering and Jewar airport said, "What seemed impossible ten years ago was made possible by Prime Minister Narendra Modi"

IndiGo flight 6E 2278 took off from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow, at 7.12 am and landed at Noida International Airport at 7.58 am

The plane carried 172 villagers from the Jewar region whose land was acquired by the state government for the first phase development of the airport. With the commencement of the flight operation at Jewar, Delhi NCR joins a select group of global megacities served by multiple airports

The arrival marked the beginning of flight operations at the Jewar-based airport, an ambitious project aimed at enhancing air connectivity between western Uttar Pradesh, the National Capital Region, and other parts of the country

The airport has been developed with a focus on creating a multimodal transport hub, with connectivity through air, road and other modes of transport, officials added. In a statement, Aloke Singh, IndiGo's chief strategy officer, termed the opening of the airport a new chapter in India's aviation story