A year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first commercial flight from Maharaja Agrasen Airport in Hisar, the airport is preparing to add two more destinations to its growing network.
Since the launch of operations on April 13, 2025, flights from Hisar have operated to Ayodhya and New Delhi. Services to Jaipur and Chandigarh were added later in September by the Haryana Chief Minister. In the past year, the airport has handled over 1,000 flights across these four destinations.
Airport Director OP Saini described the first year as successful and said expansion plans are already underway. He informed that flights to Jammu and Ahmedabad are likely to begin from May this year.
Highlighting recent upgrades, Saini said the airport has introduced non-precision runway visual range (RVR) facilities from April 16, enabling aircraft to land with visibility of up to 1,800 metres.
"One of the major development in one year is the grant of instrument flight rules (IFR) licence to the airport that allows the airport to operate flight operations in low visibility or night landing," Saini said, adding that earlier operations were limited to visual flight rules (VFR). With the new system in place, the airport can now support round-the-clock operations.
Meanwhile, construction of the new terminal building is progressing steadily. Spread across 37,790 square metres, about 35% of the work has been completed so far. The project, estimated at Rs 490 crore, is scheduled for completion by April 2027. The foundation stone for the terminal was laid by the Prime Minister during his visit in April 2025.
The airport had received its aerodrome licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on March 13, 2025, allowing it to function as a regular airport for commercial operations under the management of the Airports Authority of India.
The Hisar airport is being developed as an aviation hub by the Haryana Government, with plans that include maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities. The project is being executed in three phases, with the first phase completed in 2019.
Earlier, air taxi services were launched from the airport under the Centre's regional connectivity scheme, UDAN, in January 2021, but were discontinued in August the same year due to non-viability.
Experts believe Hisar has the potential to evolve into an aerotropolis, given its strategic location - about 165 km from Delhi and 240 km from Chandigarh - and its emerging infrastructure.