Five Colombo-bound flights diverted to Thiruvananthapuram airport due to bad weather
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five flights, three from the Middle East region 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 that more flights are 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.
