Flight takes off leaving bonafide passengers

Kolkata: An Indian Airlines flight for Ahmedabad took off from here today leaving 11 bonafide passengers who engaged in a quarrel with the airlines officials in the airport.
The IC-269 flight has a capacity to accommodate 144 passengers but the airlines had booked 155 persons and so 11 passengers were not allowed to board the plane. Airport sources said those angry 11 passengers demanded an explanation from the airlines duty manager who said the over booking had been done as per the policy of the company.
Of the 11, eight bound for Jaipur were later sent in a flight to Delhi from where they would get a plane for the Rajasthan capital tomorrow morning, airlines sources said. The other three passengers were sent to Mumbai in a flight. Tomorrow they will catch an Ahmedabad flight.The company will bear the cost of their stay at hotels in Delhi and Mumbai, the sources said.
10/11/08 PTI/Economic Times

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