Two flights arriving from the Middle East were rerouted to the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday after adverse weather conditions developed over Colombo.
According to a statement from the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL), one of the diverted aircraft was a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul carrying 258 passengers and 10 crew members.
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The other was a SriLankan Airlines flight from Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with 188 people onboard, including 8 crew members.
TIAL said both flights landed safely at the Thiruvananthapuram airport at around 7 am and later departed for Colombo at 8.38 am and 8.48 am, respectively, once weather conditions improved.
