Snag affects airport operations

Nagpur: Over 160 Sharjah-bound passengers of Air Arabia and over 60 Doha-bound passengers of Qatar Airways had a harrowing experience reportedly due to major power failure at Dr Ambedkar International Airport Terminal building on Thursday morning.
Sources said that the air-conditioning system and baggage checking X-ray machines at the international departure lounge developed some problem at 1.30 am.
Qatar Airways official Danial John said, "We start check-in for Doha flight at 1.30 am, three hours before the departure at 4.40 am. Due to some technical problem in the X-ray machines we had to shift the check-in procedure to arrival lounge. However all the 60 passengers did not face any difficulty."
Air India, area manager, IJK Dhas said, "We shifted the process from departure lounge to arrival lounge due to a technical snag in X-ray machine at departure lounge."
25/04/08 Times of India

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