India, June 16 -- Noida International Airport at Jewar began commercial flight operations on Monday, with an IndiGo flight from Lucknow becoming the first commercial aircraft to land at the greenfield facility.

The event marked the operationalisation of the National Capital Region's third airport nearly three months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated it on March 28.

IndiGo flight 6E-2278 touched down on the NIA runway from Lucknow just before 8 am and was welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute. The same aircraft, registration VT-IOM, then operated the airport's first commercial departure, taking off for Bengaluru shortly afterward.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, who attended the launch and...