lucknow the first flight of airindia from the city to jaipur dehradun and bhopal drew an overwhelming response from passengers on wednesday those who came to board the flight at the chaudhary charan singh airport at amausi said they had been waiting for the direct flight for a long time the first flight departed at 8am from lucknow to dehradun with 62 passengers while 64 boarded the flight to jaipur and 70 from jaipur for lucknow number of passenger in the bhopal flight was less the 30speaking to toi airindia station manager shakeel ahmad said there was big demand for direct flights to these destinations so on the first day there was an encouraging response as the atr72 flight of airindia departed with almost full capacitymany passengers who came to board the flight told toi it was their first experience of flying directly to and from jaipur to lucknow while passengers for dehradun said that despite being a short flight we were served beverages and that it was big convenience for a circuit so shortboarding the plane for jaipur mithali gupta said i have flown directly to jaipur from lucknow and this flight will be a great help for working personssimilarly megh acharya another passenger said now i can travel frequent from my working city to my hometown however i heard the news of direct flights three years back but the facility started this year