GREATER NOIDA, May 8 -- Operations at the newly inaugurated Noida International Airport (NIA) will commence from June 15, with the country's largest airline, IndiGo, opening ticket bookings for Lucknow-Noida (6E 2278) and other inaugural flights on Thursday. The airline said the other commencing flights include Noida-Bengaluru (6E 2278), Bengaluru-Noida (6E 2279) and Noida-Lucknow (6E 2279). The first flight will take off from Terminal 3 of Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport and land at Noida at 8.05 am, and the ticket is priced at Rs.5,072, an official said. "This will be followed by the Noida-Bengaluru flight at 8.35am, landing in Bengaluru at 11.05am. On the inaugural day, in addition to these two flights, an evening return flight from Noida to Lucknow and Bengaluru to Noida are also scheduled," said RK Singh, chief executive officer of Noida airport. The number of flights will be increased gradually. While most cities will have daily services, flights to Bareilly and Kishangarh will operate on alternate days, said officials. IndiGo will connect Noida with 16 cities - Lucknow, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Jammu, Navi Mumbai, Srinagar, Jodhpur, Dharamshala, Bhopal, Dehradun, Bareilly, Kishangarh, Patangarh, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Amritsar and Pantnagar....