AI delay: Patel's daughter takes Jet flight

New Delhi: On Tuesday morning, aviation minister Praful Patel's daughter Poornima was headed to London on AI 111. The schedule departure was at 7.20 am, but like most AI flights these days, it was delayed. While other passengers fretted, Poornima took the 12.50 pm Jet flight to London. The AI flight finally left Delhi around 3 pm — nearly eight hours behind schedule.
Other airlines accept passengers of delayed Air India flights only if the national carrier endorses their tickets. But AI rarely endorses tickets in case of delays.
While Poornima got off with a lesser delay — although she had to settle for Jet 9W122's business class, which unlike Air India does not have a Maharaja first class — hundreds of other passengers booked on the carrier continued to suffer.
IGI has witnessed riotous scenes in past few days with passengers of delayed planes — some by over 24 hours — complaining that there was no airline official to brief them.
21/11/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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