Editing Mathura (section)

===Air===
Currently the city has no airport. The nearest airports are the [[Agra Airport]] (about 60&nbsp;km away) and the [[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Delhi Airport]] (about 160&nbsp;km away) with major national and international air routes. The under-construction [[Jewar Airport]] in [[Greater Noida]] is approximately 75&nbsp;km from Mathura and is expected to be country's largest airport when fully operational. Land has been earmarked, and construction is in progress near the [[Yamuna Expressway]], with plans to open in the next five years with regular flights to major national and international air routes in future.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/251278/international-airport-now-mathura.html|title=International airport now at Mathura|date=22 May 2012|work=Deccan Herald|access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/international-airport-in-agra-akhilesh-yadav-mathura-up-government-tourism-sp-124872-2012-12-20|title=Akhilesh's plan of an international airport in Agra may not take off|date=20 December 2012|first=Piyush |last=Srivsatava|work=India Today|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Centre-invites-proposal-from-UP-for-airport-near-Mathura/articleshow/14040763.cms|title=Centre invites proposal from UP for airport near Mathura – Times of India|website=[[The Times of India]]|date=12 June 2012 |access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref>

In 2012, the then civil aviation minister [[Ajit Singh (politician, born 1939)|Ajit Singh]] suggested Mathura's name for the site of a new greenfield international airport to the then chief minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Akhilesh Yadav]]. Mathura's name came to note when a group of ministers terminated the plan of building [[Taj International Airport]] at Agra.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ajit Singh asks Akhilesh Yadav to send proposal for airport at Mathura |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/ajit-singh-asks-akhilesh-yadav-to-send-proposal-for-airport-at-mathura/articleshow/14024690.cms |access-date=16 March 2021 |work=The Economic Times |date=11 June 2012}}</ref>