Passengers bound for Calcutta complained of being given the short shrift at Delhi airport on a day an Air India pilots’ strike sent flight schedules haywire in many parts of the country.
Although air travellers faced delays and cancellations at many places, Aniruddha Lahiri, president, The Chatterjee Group, told The Telegraph about “discrimination” in the capital.
He said he saw many flights leave Delhi on schedule this afternoon, but the Air India Calcutta flight’s departure kept getting delayed.
“I was flying back from Heathrow, London, by Air India’s Flight 112. I landed at Delhi at 10am and the connecting flight to Calcutta was at 1.30pm. But the departure kept getting delayed. However, flights to other destinations like Chennai, Ahmedabad and Mumbai were on schedule,” Lahiri said.
Eventually, the flight left almost five hours behind schedule, after the “passengers flying back to Calcutta protested against the discrimination”, Lahiri said. But there was one final leg of delay even after they had boarded the plane.
28/04/11 The Telegraph
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