Nearest International Airport to Patiala is New Delhi and Amritsar
1. Flights to Amritsar
The airport at Amritsar named ‘Raja Sansi International Airport’ offers excellent service. The airport is well connected by other parts of the Country by regular flights. The Raja Sansi International airport at Amritsar is located about 11km from the city centre. Several airlines operate flights from abroad, including Singapore as well as London and Birmingham and Toronto. The airport now handles as many as forty-eight flights every week up from the occasional, intermittent ones some years ago. British airways, Malaysia airlines, Phuket airlines, Singapore airlines, Tajakistan airlines, Uzbek airways and air-India are also lining up to fly here.
There are several flights to Amritsar that operate from various destinations. There
are four main airlines namely Turkmenistan Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Jet Airways
and Air India that operate between different cities of United Kingdom and Amritsar.
Some of the major cities like London, Toronto, Singapore and Birmingham can be reached
very easily from Amritsar. Air India operates non stop flights from Amritsar to Birmingham.
The flights of Uzbekistan Airlines connect Amritsar to London and Birmingham via
Tashkent. Turkmenistan Airlines provides its passengers flights to Amritsar both
from London and Birmingham via Ashgabat.
Popular Indian cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore are directly connected to Amritsar through air.Jet Airways flight number 9W-3322and 9W-912 operates between Amritsar and Kolkata. Jet Airways flight number 9W-3322 and 9W-824 fly between the destinations Amritsar and Chennai. Jet Airways flight number 9W-3322 and 9W-804 connect Amritsar with the garden city of Bangalore. There are frequent flights to Delhi, the capital city of India from Amritsar.
2. Road
Patiala is very well connected in terms of roadways . Patiala lies just off the excellent
National Highway #1 (Delhi-Amritsar) and is about 250 Km from Delhi. The journey
via Ambala Cantt. takes about 5 hours. You can also drive to Patiala from Chandigarh,
via Zirakpur (on NH 22), and Rajpura. Other important State highways and major roads
also connect the city to various towns of Punjab. There is vast network of bus service
of Punjab, Himachal, Delhi, Haryana, Pepsu, Chandigarh, UP, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan
State Roadways, apart from private operators.
3. Railways
The city is also well connected by rail network to Delhi and other important cities of Punjab like Sangrur and Bathinda.
From New Delhi, take New Delhi-Bhatinda Inter City Express or the Shatabdi Express to Ambala, and then hire a taxi for the drive to Patiala.
For more details regarding the trains, kindly log on to their web site http://www.trainenquiry.com
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