5 Colombo-bound flights diverted to Thiruvananthapuram airport due to bad weather

Five flights, three from the Middle East and one each from Malaysia and India, bound for Sri Lanka, were diverted to the international airport here on Friday due to bad weather over Colombo, TIAL said.

TIAL said more flights were likely to be diverted to Thiruvananthapuram in view of a cyclone warning over Colombo.

Two were Srilankan Airline flights, one each from Dubai and Doha, one was an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi and one an AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur, the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL) said.

The fifth was an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Colombo, it said.

The Etihad Airways aircraft landed here at 3.44 am, the AirAsia flight at 4.37 am and the Srilankan Airlines flights at 7.44 am and 7.55 am, TIAL said.

The Indigo flight landed here at 9.49 am, it added.

The flights which landed at the Thiruvananthapuram airport in the morning were still here due to the bad weather conditions in Colombo, a TIAL official said.