IndiGo to connect nine cities from Hindon Airport

Hindon, 20th July 2025:

On Sunday, 20th July 2025, Delhi-NCRs second operational Airport at Hindon in Ghaziabad got nine new connections to different cities of India by IndiGo. The Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu officially launched the new flight routes of IndiGo from Hindon in the presence of various ministry and AAI officials alongwith IndiGo team.

With the start of these new flights, IndiGo becomes the second airline, after Air India, to mark its presence in Hindon Airport.The Air India Express started its operations four months ago from this airport, which is primarily a defence turned civilian airport.

Hindon Airport in NCR will now be connected to nine Indian cities—Bengaluru, Kolkata, Varanasi, Goa, Patna, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Indore—through IndiGo services.

“This is an (Udan) success of, Hindon, Ghaziabad, western Uttar Pradesh, and entire country,this is an Udan of the ambitions and aspirations of common Indians,” the civil aviation minister
said while addressing the media. He further added,” Airlines fleet, airports, terminal capacity, and flyers have doubled in India over the past decade.During 2024-2034, civil aviation in tier II and III cities will grow and we will have to unlock the potential. Hindon will serve as an example.”

The nine airports to be connected by IndiGo are :Bengaluru, Kolkata, Varanasi, Goa, Patna, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Indore.At per the MoCA,the annual flyers from Hindon Airport was about 8,000 in 2019, which has risen to upwards of 80,000 now.

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