A turboprop aircraft of Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, landed at Kochi's naval air station on Monday morning, marking the resumption of flight services to the city after its main airport suspended operations on August 15 following the statewide floods.
@airindiain does it again. 1st scheduled flight lands at #Cochin INS Garuda from #Bangalore with 70+ passengers.
— Ministry of Civil Aviation (@MoCA_GoI) August 20, 2018
Proud movement for #MoCA.#KeralaFloods #KeralaFlood #Kerala #KochiAirport #CochinAirport #AllianceAir #AirIndia pic.twitter.com/sAp4IsYIqQ
Alliance Air has announced that it would run return services to Bengaluru and Coimbatore from Monday. These are 9I-505 (Bengaluru to Kochi; arrival at 07.20am), 9I-506 (Kochi to Bengaluru; departure at 08.10am), 9I-515 (Bengaluru to Kochi; arrival at 11.20am) and 9I-506 (Kochi to Bengaluru; departure at 12.10pm). From Coimbatore, 9I-511 (Coimbatore to Kochi; arrival at 4.25pm) and 9I-512 (Kochi to Coimbatore; departure at 5.15pm) are operating.
Jet Airways will start services to Bengaluru from Tuesday, operating 9W-9717 (Bengaluru to Kochi; arrival at 1.30pm) and 9W-9718 (Kochi to Bengaluru; departure at 2.30pm). Other airlines are also contemplating domestic services from the naval air station until Cochin International Airport resumes services; Cochin International Airport had announced it had temporarily suspended operations till August 26.
#9Wupdate #Kochi #9WReliefFlight
— Jet Airways (@jetairways) August 19, 2018
Pls RT to those who need to travel there asap. pic.twitter.com/8FtfedhOsv
The Railways has informed that two special trains from Kolkata will run to Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, noting that it expects all rail lines in Kerala to resume operations by Monday evening.
KSRTC announced on Monday that it had resumed operations in Pathanamthitta district, which was severely hit by the floods last week.
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Meanwhile, rescue and relief operations continue across the affected parts of Kerala. Nearly 8 lakh people are housed at 3,734 relief camps. The Centre on Sunday directed ministries to work toward provision of essential commodities and restoration of services such as power, fuel and telecom lines.
The Department of Food and Public Distribution has made available 50,000 metric tonnes of food grains (rice and wheat) to meet the immediate needs with additional quantities in the pipeline.
The Department of Consumer Affairs has made arrangements to airlift 100 metric tonnes of pulses with additional quantities to be sent by train.
(With inputs from onmanorama)