Eid-Onam rush: AIE to operate additional flights from Gulf to Mangalore, Kerala

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August 7, 2012

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Mangalore, August 7: Mangalore Airport is among four others to which the Air India Express (AIE) would operate additional international flights during the upcoming festival season.

The airline decided to introduce over 50 flights in the Middle East sector to meet the rush of passengers during Eid-ul-Fitr and Onam. Most services -to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Doha and Dammam- would be from Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode and Kochi besides Mangalore. An AIE official said some flights would operate from Chennai and Mumbai.

The AIE would operate flights in the Kozhikode-Dubai-Kozhikode route on August 18 and 25, while another Mangalore- Kozhikode-Dubai-Mangalore flight would fly on September 7.

Additional Kochi-Dubai-Kochi flights would operate on August 8, 15, 18, and September 9. Services in the Thiruvananthapuram-Dubai sector would be on August 8, 13, 15 and September 8 and 14.

Special Kozhikode-Doha-Kozhikode flights would operate on August 25 and September 2 and 9. There would be an additional flight each in Kochi-Abu Dhabi-Kochi route on August 26; in Thiruvanathapuram-Abu Dhabi-Thiruvanathapuram route on August 30 and one in Kozhikode-Abu Dhabi-Kozhikode route on August 15.

An additional Kozhikode-Kochi-Kuwait-Kochi-Kozhikode flight would operate on September 5, the airline said.

The AIE have also decided to operate additional Mumbai-Dammam-Mumbai flights on all Tuesdays and Fridays from August 21 to September 14.

This would have connection flights from Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. Chennai-Dubai-Chennai flights has started operating from August 2. The flights would operate on all Thursdays till September 13, AIE said.

Normal flights from September


Air India Express expects to resume normal service by September-end, while Air India is likely to operate normally by this month-end.

AIE has been cancelling several flights from Mangalore and from Kerala airports owing to employees' strike. Air India has been cancelling 20% of its services across the country.

“We are re-rostering the 400-odd pilots rejoining duty in phases. We have to make them undergo a series of tests before they are allowed to operate flights independently, as they were off-roster for more than 30 days,” an Air India official said.

The official said that the Kozhikode-Riyadh flight would resume by August 9. He said the Kochi-Riyadh flight was operating normally from August 1.


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May 17,2020

Mangaluru, May 17: With the detection of two more covid-19 positive cases in Mangaluru, the total number of cases in Dakshina Kannada today mounted to 52.

A 35-year-old woman who was under quarantine along with her husband after returning from Maharashtra today tested positive for the coronavirus. 

A 31-year-old man also tested positive for covid-19.  More details to follow.

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March 27,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Karnataka has so far witnessed 62 Covid-19 positive cases including 3 deaths and five discharges, according to mid-day bulletin released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

The state on Friday witnessed a sudden spike in the number of Covid-19 cases with the officials confirming seven new positive cases overnight (26 March 5:00 pm to 27 March 8:00 am) across the state including a 10-month-old baby boy becoming the youngest Covid-19 patient in Karnataka and second youngest patient in India after 8-month-old baby in Jammu and Kashmir.

According to mid-day bulletin released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare on Friday, Karnataka witnessed 62 Covid-19 positive cases including 3 deaths and five discharges. The 10-month-old baby (P56) even though had no travel history to any of the Covid-19 affected countries, officials revealed that the family members had taken the baby to Kerala and six primary contacts have been established and put under home quarantine.

This apart, a 20-year-old male (P57) who returned from Colombo, a 25-year-old female (P58) who returned from London have also been tested positive for Covid-19. Further, a 35-year-old female (P59) and 33-year-old female (P61) said to be the primary contacts of P25 (House Maid) have also been tested positive according to the officials

Besides, a 60-year-old male (P60) who returned to Sira in Tumakuru by train from New Delhi died on Friday morning also tested positive. His primary contacts, including health care professionals have been put under house quarantine. According to officials a 22-year-old male (P62) from Uttara Kannada with travel history to Dubai has also been tested positive for Covid 19 on Friday.

According to bulletin, all the patients barring P60 are being treated at designated isolation hospitals in Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Uttara Kannada. In the meantime, P1 and P3 from Bengaluru have been discharged from RGICD, according to officials.

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April 4,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 4: Sixteen coronavirus cases have

been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of the affected in the state to 144, the Health department said here on Saturday.

A 75-year old man, who is a resident of Bagalkote, who was confirmed positive on Friday and was being treated at a designated hospital in the district, expired last night.

"Till this evening, 144 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes four deaths and 11 discharges," the health department said in a bulletin.

Out of the 129 active cases, 126 patients (including 1 pregnant woman) are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable and three in Intensive Care Units (one on oxygen and two on Ventilators), it said.

Among the total of 144 cases detected and confirmed so far, eight are transit passengers of Kerala who landed in airports in Karnataka and are being treated in the state, it said.

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