India, March 25 -- The Airport Authority of India (AAI) is planning to expand Hindon Airport in Ghaziabad because it is nearing its saturation point with 600 daily passengers against its capacity of 700-800 daily passengers, AAI officials said on Monday.

The airport is planning to launch a new route to Bhubaneswar for which airlines have already opened bookings. It recently launched flights to Kolkata, Chennai, Goa, Bengaluru (two routes), Mumbai, and Jammu, and has run flights to Adampur, Nanded, Kishangarh, Ludhiana, and Bathinda since 2024. The airport uses the runway of the Indian Air Force base at Hindon, so civil flights can only land and depart between sunrise and sunset, with the airfield used as a military airstrip at other time...