Kochi,  A total of 112 French nationals stuck in Kerala since the lockdown began was flown out on a special Air India flight from here on Saturday morning, said airport officials.

The special Air India flight arrived from Bengaluru with passengers and after picking the French nationals here, left for Mumbai, where more of them are waiting to travel to France.

In the past few days similar flights were operated to ferry German and Omani nationals from Kerala who had come to the state either as tourists or for health checkups and ayurveda treatments.

Cochin airport officials expressed their intent that they are ready to do similar operations to fly out other nationals who are stuck in the state.