Jalandhar’s Adampur airport to have daily flights to New Delhi under the UDAN scheme

Jalandhar’s Adampur airport will now be accessible by air as budget airline Spicejet is all set to launch its flights to New Delhi from the place. The upcoming flights from this airport will be launched under UDAN, which is the government’s regional connectivity scheme.
The Adampur airport has been manned by the Indian Air Force till now, but starting tomorrow, it will be used by regular passengers as Spicejet’s first flight from this place is scheduled to take off on Wednesday.

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A press release by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has revealed that the flights between Adampur and New Delhi will be operated with a 78-seater Bombardier Q400 aircraft.

AAI has further revealed that flights on the Adampur-New Delhi route will be available to travellers on a daily basis. This will also make Adampur the fourth aerodrome in Punjab to have flights under the government’s Udan scheme.

"Since Adampur airport was selected as one of the airports for operation of RCS flights in the first phase of the bidding for the routes, and flights were to be commenced at the earliest, a small fully air-conditioned terminal building spread over 375 sq m area has been constructed with pre-fabricated structure along with an approach road, a small car parking and other associated structures as interim measure," said a statement from AAI.

The Adampur airport is already home to all sorts of modern passenger facilities, including the presence of flight information display system, CCTV cameras, ticketing counters of different airlines, and other public conveniences.

Going forward, the AAI is also planning to come up with a 5,000 sq m terminal building at Adampur, with a taxi track and car parking facilities among other things. When ready, the terminal building will be capable of handling a total of 300 passengers on a daily basis. Some of the facilities that the terminal building will have are high-tech baggage handling system, glass elevators, escalators, aerobridges, and the capacity to park up to two Airbus A320 type of aircraft at a time.