KIA reconnects to most international destinations and adds new ones
The Hindu
Bengaluru
Bengaluru has reconnected to most international destinations to which flights were stopped due to COVID-19. Besides, new international routes have also been added which were not in operation in the pre-COVID-19 era.
Pre-COVID-19, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) was connected to 25 international destinations, with an average of 40 international departures each day.
A majority of the flights were operated to the Middle East region connecting Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh and Sharjah, followed by the South East Asian region.
In the South East Asian region flights were operated to Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Don Mueang, Phuket, besides four flights to the European cities of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris.
There was a solitary flight to Africa connecting the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa with Bengaluru. The other destinations were Colombo, Male, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Kathmandu and San Francisco via Delhi.
Following the COVID-19 outbeak, international flight services were suspended with only repatriation flights to fly back Indian nationals from abroad under the Vande Bharat mission and Air Bubble flights, under which foreign airlines could operate flights to India cities.
Currently there are flights to most of these destinations barring Mauritius.