The Biju Patnaik International Airport here on Thursday announced the introduction of flights to at least five new destinations in 2025. An airport official said IndiGo will introduce flights to Indore four days a week and to Dehradun three days a week from January 1, 2025. The scheduled departure time for these flights from Bhubaneswar will be at 3 pm.
Air India Express will commence flights from Bhubaneswar to Lucknow and Jaipur three days a week along with daily flights to Cochin from January 3 next year, he said. The airport authorities also planned to commence new flights to Bengaluru from January 4, the official added. Meanwhile, several areas of the Odisha capital have been declared as no-fly and no-drone zones during the all-India conference IGP-DGP conference to be held from November 29 to December 1 in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are scheduled to participate.
Also read | Lighthouse Tourism: Odisha building two more structures to attract tourists "Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) area, Raj Bhawan area, the event venue Lok Seva Bhawan, IPS Mess at Maitrivihar and the route from BPIA to Raj Bhawan, and from Raj Bhawan to Loka Seva Bhawan, airport to IPS Mess and Maitrivihar & IPS Mess to Loka Seva Bhawan, Bhubaneswar have been declared as no drone/no flying zone during the visit of Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and VVIP dignitaries to Bhubaneswar for DGP & IGP Conference-2024 from 29.11.2024 to 01.
12.2024," a noti.
