Friyana Munshi
New Delhi, March 19, 2021: The flight from Gorakhpur to Lucknow has been approved after a long wait. The first flight from Gorakhpur to Lucknow under the Regional Flight Scheme will start on March 28. The airport authority has released the schedule for the same. Air India flight from Gorakhpur to New Delhi will take off daily for Lucknow. The flight, which takes off from Gorakhpur at two o’clock in the afternoon, will reach Lucknow at three o’clock. At 3.30 pm it shall leave for Gorakhpur from Lucknow. This flight will be able to carry 72 passengers simultaneously.
For this one-hour journey, a fare of about Rs 1470 has been fixed. As per the schedule released, Air India flight from New Delhi will reach Gorakhpur at 1.30 am after take-off at 11.30 am. The same plane will fly to Lucknow at 2.00 pm and reach at 3:00; then it shall arrive at Gorakhpur from Lucknow at 4.30 pm. The same plane will again fly to New Delhi at 5.00 pm after a gap of about half an hour. Including Indigo, Spice Jet and Air India four flights from Gorakhpur to Delhi, one flight each by Indigo to Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Prayagraj, two Spice Jet flights to Mumbai and one flight by Indigo as well as Lucknow’s Air India, there will be a total of 12 flights.