Air India has decided to commence flights for six days in a week starting from January 15, 2016 from New Delhi to Gorakhpur. The aircraft will be 70-seated ATR, which will operate on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
As per the timing of the flight is considered, flight AI 9809 starting from New Delhi will depart at 1215 hrs which is expected to arrive at 1415 hrs at Gorakhpur. Moreover, flight AI 9810 will depart from Gorakhpur at 1445 hrs and will reach New Delhi at 1645 hrs. The flight from Gorakhpur will provide connectivity to flyers to various international and domestic flights to various destinations. Further, passenger who visits Delhi from various Gulf and other international countries will have direct flights to Gorakhpur.
As per the dream program ‘Connecting India’ of Air India, this is the latest destination after it started operation between Mumbai and Gwalior with ATR-72 aircraft along with connecting Durgapur to Delhi and Kolkata by an aircraft A319.