AI leaves 100 passengers stranded

Amritsar: Air India has done it again. On Sunday it took its AI-187 flight to Toronto via Birmingham leaving behind around 100 passengers stranded at the Rajasansi International Airport near here.
Fuming passengers and their associates, who had come to see them off, raised anti-airlines slogans and chased the AI officials, who sensing the mood, managed to flee.
In the absence of senior AI officials, lower staff did not know how to react to the growing anguish of passengers and their supporters, who were hurling abuses and castigating the airlines’ behaviour. The passengers described the situation as worse than a railway station or even a bus stand.
Interestingly, AI repeated its fault within a fortnight of noted journalist Kuldip Nayyar lodging an FIR against the AI for disallowing him to board the plane to New Delhi from this place despite valid booking.
However, AI Station Manager Ashwani Arora claimed that only 56 passengers could not board the plane.
31/03/08 Kuldeep Mann/Hindustan Times

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