India, June 15 -- The inaugural flight from Lucknow landed at Noida International Airport at 7:55 am on Monday, as the new airport began commercial operations following its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 28.

IndiGo flight 6E-2278 departed from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow and landed at Noida International Airport at 7:55 am on Monday. The return service, IndiGo flight 6E-2279, is scheduled to leave Noida airport at 6:55 pm and arrive in Lucknow at 8 pm.

Notably, Akasa Air is also set to launch daily services from Noida airport to Bengaluru and Navi Mumbai from Tuesday (June 16), becoming the second carrier to operate from the airport.

Although commercial passenger services began on Mond...