Gorakhpur: With the aim of providing easy access for Buddhist pilgrims, Nepal’s Buddha Airways has provided a proposal to start flights from Kushinagar International Airport.
“The Buddha Airways has provided a proposal to start flights.
We have sent a proposal to the Indian Airport Authority (AAI) to be forwarded to the government to be approved.
We have asked the airline to pursue the Indian government to approve the proposal,” said Airport Director, Anil Dwivedi.
According to the proposal Buddha Airlines wants to start a flight from Kathmandu to Kushinagar through Lucknow and also from Kushinagar to Bhairahwa.
The director said that all the arrangements of Kushinagar International Airport had been made, however, the inauguration date had not been repaired.
According to airport sources it tends to be inaugurated on September 15.
For safety, the high-version landing system must be installed at the airport and AAI has demanded 34 hectares of land from the state government for that purpose.
Magistrate Joint Purna Bohra said that in accordance with the demand, the process of land acquisition was underway.
The airport is spread around 600 acre land.
In June 2020 Kushinagar airport received international status and in February 2021 the airport received all the permits needed from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to be recognized as an international airport.