foreign nationals

Kempegowda International Airport

Bengaluru

Covid-19

Bangalore

The flight left on Tuesday, with 86 Italians and 80 other passengers belonging to other European nationsAnother set ofwho were stranded in the state were flown back to their native countries from theon Tuesday.A reparation flight with foreign nationals from Italy and the European Union was operated with more than 160 passengers onboard.An Boeing 777-300 ER Alitalia flight lefton Tuesday night to Rome. Along with 86 Italians around 80 other passengers belonging to various European nations like Germany, France, Ireland, Portugal, Malta and Latvia were onboard the aircraft. According to the Embassy of Italy in India the passengers from European nations upon reaching Rome will head to their respective destinations.Air India which operates flights to Rome was suspended mid-March following the outbreak of. Due to this many Italian tourists were stranded in the state, especially in Gokarna for over a month due to non-availability of flights back to their countries.The flight from Bengaluru to Rome is the fourth special flight arranged by the Embassy of Italy to fly back stranded Italians in India. Two flights were operated from New Delhi and one from Goa.Tuesday’s reparation flight is the second one to take off from KIA on consecutive days following the departure of British Airways flight to London on Monday, with 292 passengers on board.One more charter flight has been arranged by the UK government which will depart on April 23 from Bengaluru to London via Ahmedabad.So far repatriation flights from Bengaluru have been operated to Italy, Canada, UK, Japan, Germany and Oman.******TheInternational Airport Limited (BIAL) operators of the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) was in the midst of a massive Rs 13,000 crore infrastructure development project at the airport before the Covid-19 crise put a break on them, are now unsure when work will resume.Though the state government has allowed construction activities to resume in urban areas from April 20 with the clause that the workers would have to stay at the sites, BIAL did not respond to Bangalore Mirrors queries whether construction would resume at the airport.Construction activity came to a halt at the airport on March 23. BIAL is undertaking the construction of Terminal 2 to meet the growing demands.