Heavy rains lashed out at Bengaluru and the outskirts of the city on Tuesday evening, resulting the diversion and cancellation of flights at Kempegowda International Airport. A total of 14 flights were diverted from Bengaluru out of which 12 were diverted to Chennai airport, one flight was diverted to Coimbatore airport and other flight to Hyderabad, reported news agency PTI.
An airport official told PTI, “Out of 12 flights, seven Indigo Flights, three Vistara, two Akasa Airlines and one each of Go Air and Air India were diverted due to the bad weather. Six departures were delayed. The flights that are diverted will be refueled and will be returning to Bengaluru.” The operations at the Bengaluru airport were impacted from 4.05pm to 4.51pm.
