Bird-hit, fog delay flights

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International Airport here was crammed with passengers on Monday morning because of a series of delays and diversion of a flight to Delhi owing to fog in another city.
Passengers of a Dubai-bound Air India flight scheduled to depart on Sunday night had to wait for almost 24 hours at the airport because of a bird-hit. As a result, passengers scheduled to go to Frankfurt in the same aircraft (AI 137) on Monday morning got delayed by several hours.
The Dubai-bound flight AI 747 was to take off at 8-30 p.m. on Sunday, but the aircraft that was coming from Dhaka was grounded because of a bird-hit.
Since the same Delhi-Dubai flight was affected on Saturday as well causing backlog, another aircraft carrying the rest of the Dubai-bound passengers will be flown on Tuesday morning, another airline official said.
There were also reports that some passengers had a heated argument with the Air India officials over the delays and inconvenience caused to them.
27/11/07 The Hindu

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