Puttaparthi to Bangalore Flights

Bangalore Airport, also known as Kempegowda International Airport (IATA: BLR, ICAO: VOBL), is situated 40 km to the north of Bangalore city. Bangalore Airport Terminal 1 is the only passenger terminal at BLR Airport. Both domestic and international flights are combined in this single terminal. Every year, millions of passengers can be accommodated. Bengaluru Airport has several prominent air carriers operating such as AirAsia India, Alliance Air, DHL Aviation, FedEx Express, Go First, IndiGo, Star Air, Air India, Vistara and SpiceJet. The facilities provided by this airport are many. ATMs are located on the ground, the first levels, as well as in the domestic departure area. Money exchange counters are located across the terminal building and in both departing terminals. The terminal building is home to some cafes, bars and restaurants, most of which are on the first floor in the departures area. In the area of foreign departures, there is a sizable duty-free shop. There are numerous stores selling books, gadgets, apparel, and crafts in the domestic departures section.

Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, is the capital city of Karnataka state, in southern India. Bangalore is presently India's third most populous city in India due to its diverse immigrant population. In the 1950s, Bangalore witnessed massive immigration movement as the state provided a much needed boost to education and technology sectors. As a result, today, Bengaluru is referred to as the ësilicon valley of Indiaí, being the IT hub of India. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) too is headquartered in this high-tech city. Conversely, Bengaluru is also known as the ëgarden cityí for its many parks and lake gardens. Pub culture is very prevalent in this city because it is cosmopolitan and an IT hub. Indian festivals like Diwali, Holi, Dussehra, Eid-ul-Fitr, Ganesh Chaturthi, etc., are celebrated with vibrant colours and lights throughout the city. As this is a city of immigrants from all over India, there is great lingua cultural diversity found. Languages such as Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and English are the most popular languages spoken. The city has a secular outlook reflecting the ideal Indian culture in terms of the many religions thriving here, majority of which are Hindus followed by minorities of Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians. The weather of Bengaluru is ideal in so far as it remains mild and pleasant all through the year.

The Sathya Sai Airport is located in the Indian city of Puttaparthi (IATA: PUT, ICAO: VOPN). The airport is named after Sri Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian saint, philanthropist and spiritual figure known both nationally and internationally. This airport was built in 1990 to support the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in an emergency by providing emergency services that require patients to be airlifted out of the state. Therefore, the services at this small airport are more adapted to accommodating charter flights than passenger airliners. The airport's terminal building and 1,000-metre airstrip were constructed primarily for such purposes. Later, it extended the runway to make room for the usage of larger jet aircrafts as sometimes the runway is also used for dignitaries. The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthi, continues to get air service from the airport for emergency travel requirements. There are no commercial scheduled flights operating out of this airport currently and there is no recent update on whether it will happen in future either.

About 440 km from Hyderabad is the little village of Puttaparthi in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. While it was an unknown little village before, It is now a popular religious and tourist attraction in southern India. It attracted international and national attention because of the living god, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, who is revered by people worldwide. Puttaparthi being a popular pilgrimage destination, has a wide variety of excellent food options to suit every taste. The fact that the food served at the ashram is fully vegetarian, hygienic and fairly priced makes it a favourite among devotees. Even though it is quite a remote village, it has an excellent hospital known as the super specialty hospital for emergency services which is well equipped with the latest medical services and technology. It also has an airport named after Sri Sathya Sai Baba, which is used essentially to run emergency services for the hospital and sometimes used for landing of dignitaries.