Chennai floods: Air India to operate special flight to Arrakonam from Hyderabad

After being troubled by incessant rain, Chennai floods are tormenting the city’s residents and travellers going to, or  heading away from it. Coming to the rescue of travellers at least is government-owned Air India, which today said it will operate a special flight to the Arrakonam Naval Air Station from Hyderabad to ferry stranded passengers, who have been airlifted from Chennai airport by the IAF helicopters.

The special Air India Flight AI- 564 was expected to take off from Hyderabad for Arrakonam Naval Air Station at around 1530 hours, an Air India spokesperson said. No confirmation is available as yet.

With the Chennai airport closed till December 6 following heavy rains and floods, Air India had successfully landed an Airbus A320 carrying passengers from Hyderabad at the Rajali Naval Air Station at Arakkonam last evening.

Air India said that the special flight will carry 30 of its personnel onboard for logistics, adding the flight would bring back 130 passengers who have been evacuated from the Chennai airport by the IAF personnel.

Earlier in the day, the airline had managed to transport 60 stranded passengers by road to Thiruvananthapuram while 35 passengers were accommodated in an IAF flight from Thambaram airbase

Also see: Indian Railways cancelled trains list:

Sl NO	Train No	TRAINS CANCELLED FROM CHENNAI EGMORE	Cancelled on 3.12.2015
1	17651	Chennai Egmore-Kacheguda Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
2	17643	Chennai Egmore-Kakinada Circar Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
3	15929	Chennai Egmore –Dibrugarh(Weekly) Exp	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
4	56860	Villupuram – Tambaram Passenger	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
5	66043/66045	Madras Beach-Melmaruvathur-Villupuram Pass	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
		Trains Cancelled from Chennai Central
1	56001	Chennai-Arakkonam-Passenger	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
2	16053	Chennai-Tirupathi Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
3	57239	Chennai-Gudur/Bitragunta-Chennai Passenger	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
4	22826	Chennai-Shalimar (Weekly) Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
5	12603	Chennai-Hyderabad Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
6	12685	Chennai-Mangalore Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
7	12759	Chennai-Hyderabad Charminar Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
8	12615	Chennai-Delhi-Sarai Rohilla Grand Trunk Exp	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
9	22639	Chennai –Alappuzha  Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
10	12623	Chennai –Thiruvananthapuram Mail	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
11	16021	Chennai-Mysore Kaveri Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
12	22631	Chennai- Biknaner (Weekly) AC Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
13	22651	Chennai – Palani Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
14	12621	Chennai- New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015
15	16203	Chennai-Tirupati Express	Cancelled o­n 3.12.2015