Three more flights from Patna airport from today

PATNA: Three more flights will operate from the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport from Monday, as per the revised provisional flight schedule approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. GoAir would resume its flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, increasing the number of total flights from Patna airport from 13 to 16.
The Delhi-Patna-Delhi (G8-2511/ 2512) would land here at 9.40am and depart for Delhi at 10.20am, whereas Patna-Mumbai G8-351/352 would arrive 10.30am and leave for Mumbai at 11.20am.The third flight between Patna and Bengaluru (G8- 873/ 874) would land here at 1.20pm and depart for Bengaluru at 2pm.
Meanwhile, the number of flyers landing at the city airport has been more than those leaving for other destinations in the last one week since May 25.
Altogether 14 flights landed here and took off to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Amritsar on Sunday. Altogether 2,412 passengers arrived and 1,017 flew out of the city.
One Delhi-Patna flight (SG-8480) scheduled to land at 6pm on Saturday, was diverted to Varanasi due to bad weather in the city. It reached the city airport around 12.40am and left for Delhi at 1.10am.
Patna airport director Bhupesh CH Negi said altogether 13,062 arrived and 5,063 departed in the last seven days. “Since flight operations resumed on May 25, the airport handled 80 domestic flights, with total 17,208 passengers. All standard operating procedure has been followed to ensure safe/secure journey,” he said.
“As a precautionary measure, NDRF conducts extensive disinfection drive on entire airport premises every alternate night,” Negi said.