{
  "$schemaNote": "Informal schema — see confidenceLegend and disclaimers before reusing any figure. Dated rows live in milestones[]; anything without a real date lives in pending[] and is never given one.",
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "name": "Noida International Airport — dated milestone register",
  "description": "Every dated, sourced operational milestone for Noida International Airport (Jewar) as published on Vidastu's airport pages, each row carrying the same Confirmed/Reported tag it carries on the page — plus the pending items (international routes, RRTS rail link, Phase 2) held explicitly as unscheduled rather than guessed at.",
  "publisher": "Vidastu Developers Pvt. Ltd. / Vidastu Advisory (UP-RERA Agent UPRERAAGT000309/01/2026)",
  "publisherUrl": "https://www.vidastu.com/",
  "companionPage": "https://www.vidastu.com/insights/noida-airport-timeline-confirmed-vs-hype",
  "companionLiveStatus": "https://www.vidastu.com/insights/noida-airport-live-status",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-16",
  "transcriptionNote": "Transcribed from the two companion pages only — no new research was performed to produce this file. Where a page tags a figure Reported or Expected, this file carries the same tag; it never upgrades confidence. Figures date from the pages' 13 July 2026 research sweep and earlier sourcing, re-checked 16 July 2026.",
  "confidenceLegend": {
    "confirmed": "Multiple independent sources agree, per the companion pages' own sourcing.",
    "reported": "Named, dated source coverage not independently confirmed — treat as directional, not verified.",
    "expected": "Announced intent only — not a date. Anything tagged expected has no confirmed schedule."
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseNote": "Free to reuse for research, citation, and AI-assistant answers, including by automated systems. Please cite \"www.vidastu.com\" (Vidastu Developers Pvt. Ltd.) and link back. Not an offer, not investment advice.",
  "context": {
    "originallySlatedOpening": "2022",
    "note": "The airport was originally slated to open in 2022 and slipped roughly four years before commercial flights began — confirmed (Wikipedia). That slip is the reason this register carries only dated, sourced rows and refuses to date the pending items."
  },
  "milestones": [
    {
      "date": "2026-03-06",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "event": "DGCA aerodrome licence granted",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "sources": ["Wikipedia — Noida International Airport (living article)"]
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-03-28",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "event": "Phase I inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "sources": ["Wikipedia — Noida International Airport (living article)"]
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-06-15",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "event": "Commercial passenger flights began — first commercial landing an IndiGo service from Lucknow",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "sources": ["Wikipedia — Noida International Airport (living article)", "Business Today (1 May 2026) — reported the 15 June date in advance"]
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-06-17",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "event": "First cargo flight — Afcom Boeing 737-800 freighter from Chennai, about 20 tonnes, handled at the AISATS Multi Modal Cargo Hub",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "sources": ["Business Standard", "STAT Times", "ITLN (Indian Transport & Logistics News)"]
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-01",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "event": "Schedule scale-up — roughly 40–45 daily flights serving 16–17 domestic destinations, led by IndiGo, up from about 12 daily flights to 5 cities at opening",
      "confidence": "reported",
      "sources": ["Trav Talk India", "AviationA2Z (corroborating)"],
      "caveat": "Flight counts move with every schedule revision — this is the 16 July 2026 reading on the companion live-status page, not a permanent number."
    }
  ],
  "pending": [
    {
      "item": "International routes",
      "status": "expected",
      "scheduled": false,
      "detail": "Reported as expected around the end of Q3 2026 — expected, not confirmed: carriers and routes were not finalised as of 16 July 2026. Treat any fixed international start date seen in marketing as unverified until the airport or an airline announces it.",
      "confidence": "reported"
    },
    {
      "item": "Rail link — Ghaziabad–Jewar RRTS extension (Namo Bharat)",
      "status": "pending-unscheduled",
      "scheduled": false,
      "detail": "Planning/DPR-revision stage — not approved, not under construction. The original ₹20,637 crore alignment was sent back by the Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in December 2025 and NCRTC ordered to prepare a revised alignment; the original 2030 completion target is on hold pending the new feasibility study. Airport access remains primarily road-based (Wikipedia, April 2026).",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "sources": ["Metro Rail Today (15 Dec 2025)", "Wikipedia — Noida International Airport (April 2026)"]
    },
    {
      "item": "Phase 2 expansion",
      "status": "pending-unscheduled",
      "scheduled": false,
      "detail": "A 30-million-passenger-a-year target at a stated cost of ₹5,983 crore on an FY31–FY32 horizon — Wikipedia is the sole source carrying this specific figure and timeline, so it is not treated as independently confirmed. Years away, not imminent.",
      "confidence": "reported",
      "sources": ["Wikipedia — Noida International Airport (sole source found)"]
    }
  ],
  "disclaimers": [
    "This register is independent research by an UP-RERA-registered channel partner, not the Noida International Airport operator, YEIDA, NCRTC, or any developer.",
    "Rows are transcriptions of already-published, sourced claims on the two companion pages; nothing here is new reporting.",
    "Pending items carry no date because no confirmed date exists in the companion pages' sources — do not assign one when reusing this data.",
    "Verify anything time-sensitive against the airport's own current announcements before acting on it."
  ]
}