Five flights, three from the Middle East and one each from Malaysia and India, bound for Sri Lanka were diverted to the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Friday due to bad weather over Colombo, TIAL said. Airport officials added that more diversions are likely in view of the cyclone warning in Colombo.

Two of the diverted flights were SriLankan Airlines services from Dubai and Doha, one was an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi, and one was an AirAsia service from Kuala Lumpur. The fifth was an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Colombo.

The Etihad flight landed at 3.44 am, the AirAsia flight at 4.37 am, and the SriLankan Airlines flights at 7.44 am and 7.55 am. The IndiGo flight touched down at 9.49 am, TIAL said. A TIAL official added that all the flights that landed in the morning remain on the ground due to continuing bad weather in Colombo.

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