Two were Srilankan Airline flights, one each from Dubai and Doha, one was an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi and the last one an AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur, the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL) said.
The Etihad Airways aircraft landed here at 3.44 am, the AirAsia flight at 4.37 am and the Srilankan Airlines flights at 7.44 am and 7.55 am, TIAL said.
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Earlier, it was reported that five flights, three from the Middle East region and one each from Malaysia and India, bound for Sri Lanka were diverted to the international airport at Thiruvananthapuram in view of a cyclone warning over Colombo on Friday .
TIAL added that more flights are likely to be diverted to Thiruvananthapuram due to adverse weather.
The fifth flight was an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Colombo. The flights which landed at the Thiruvananthapuram airport in the morning are yet to tak-off as of noon IST due to the bad weather conditions.
Meanwhile, the cyclone that swept across Sri Lanka claimed 46 lives while 23 people were reported missing, with the weather department warning the storm could intensify as it moves across the island over the next 12 hours.
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Most fatalities were attributed to landslides triggered by torrential rainfall exceeding 300 mm (11.8 inches) over the past 24 hours as Cyclone Ditwah lashed the island nation, with the eastern and central regions most severely affected.
Nationwide, 43,991 people were evacuated to schools and other public shelters, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said in a statement, including families stranded on rooftops.
Schools remained closed, train services were suspended, and the Colombo Stock Exchange announced an early trading halt as heavy rains persisted.
(With inputs from agencies)
(Edited by : Jerome Anthony)
First Published: Nov 28, 2025 12:51 PM IST
