Bengaluru (Karnataka): As many as 13 airlines will connect Bengaluru to 14 international destinations under air bubbles, and the repatriation programmes.
According to reports, the international destinations connected to Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport include Abu Dhabi (Etihad, GoAir and Air India Express), Amsterdam (KLM Royal Dutch), Dubai (Emirates, Indigo, GoAir, Air India Express and Vistara), Doha (Indigo and Qatar Airways), Frankfurt (Lufthansa), Kuwait (Air India and Indigo).
The list also includes Kuala Lumpur (Air India Express and Malaysian Airlines), London (Air India and British Airways), Muscat (Air India Express), Narita (Air India), Paris (KLM Royal Dutch), Riyadh (Indigo) and Singapore (Air India Express).
Meanwhile, Bengaluru will also be connected to San Francisco via Kochi (Air India).
Since July, India has established such bubbles with the following countries - the US, the UK, France, Germany, the UAE, Qatar and the Maldives.
Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said that India is negotiating with 13 countries, including Australia, Japan and Singapore, to establish separate bilateral air bubble arrangements for international flight operations.
Under a bilateral air bubble pact, airlines of both the countries can operate international flights with certain restrictions.