35 flights to land in Bengaluru under Vande Bharat Mission

BENGALURU: The first of 35 flights to Kempegowda International Airport scheduled under the Vande Bharat Mission Phase-3 landed on Monday morning. The flights will land in Bengaluru between June 8 and July 1. Twenty of these will be from the US alone, with one each from Chicago (which arrived on Monday) and Los Angeles, and the rest from San Francisco.

Airport sources said the first flight from San Francisco will reach Bengaluru on June 13, followed by daily flights from June 16 to July 1. Only on June 28, two flights will operate on that route. The flight from Los Angeles will arrive in the state capital on June 19.The government will run at least one flight each from France, Japan, Maldives, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand and Russia. “But these are tentative and could change depending on demand,” an airport source said.