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Short flights will shut as highways get faster, says Nitin Gadkari at Auto9 Awards

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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said several short-haul air routes in India would become unviable as faster highways and reduced travel times push commuters away from flying. Speaking at the Auto9 Awards, he said people would “simply stop flying” on routes such as Delhi–Dehradun, Delhi–Jaipur and Delhi–Chandigarh, citing the Mumbai–Pune corridor as an example where improved highways led to the shutdown of multiple flight…
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NEWS9 LIVE broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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