New Delhi: Days after it replaced its expat CEO with an Indian one to overcome a regulatory hurdle, Noida International Airport (NIA) on Monday received its final clearance, allowing preparations to begin for commercial launch.
With Bureau of Civil Aviation Security clearing the aerodrome security programme (ASP), Noida airport’s launch airline partners — IndiGo, Air India Express and Akasa — are expected to start selling tickets for domestic flights soon.
The first flight from NIA is likely to take off in the first week of June.
An aviation ministry official said, “First week of June will be an important time for Delhi-NCR’s aerial connectivity. While NIA will start domestic operations, Delhi’s IGI Airport will start its hub-and-spoke operations to enable seamless transfers (like the ones at Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Singapore or Frankfurt) between domestic and international flights.”
This means Delhi’s IGI will set into motion the process of turning into a hub airport for international flyers from different cities, giving them a smoother transit experience that integrates certain processes at the spoke airport with the hub airport.
The double boost for aviation in Delhi-NCR comes at a challenging time for airlines, which are battling cost overruns and a fall in international travel because of the US-Israel war with Iran.
IGI Airport’s international capacity, incidentally, will increase from a little over 2 crore passengers annually to 3.2 crore after the recently converted international pier at Delhi IGIA’s T3 (Pier C) becomes operational next week. In about a month from that, seamless transfers will start and airside transit will also be rolled out between T1 and T3.
So, while India’s busiest airport, IGIA, begins its journey to becoming a hub, NIA will take flight as Delhi’s second international airport.
28/04/2026 Times of India
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