SpiceJet mixes up flights at IGI

New Delhi: At best, it’s bizarre. A SpiceJet flight bound for Chennai nearly took off with Bangalore-bound passengers, from the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday morning.
About 60 Bangalore-bound passengers boarded a SpiceJet bus from the domestic departure terminal, to be taken to their flight. Minutes later, the bus stopped near a SpiceJet aircraft and the passengers were made to queue up for the boarding process.
According to the passengers, some of them had boarded the flight when they were told by the crew that the aircraft was meant to fly to Chennai, not Bangalore. But Spicejet denied this and said the mistake was discovered on the ladder itself, while the boarding passes were being checked.
Ujawal Bedi, a resident of DLF City, Gurgaon said: “Among the passengers was a brother-sister duo. While the sister came on a different bus and boarded the right plane, her brother landed up outside the Chennai-bound one.”
The girl kept calling her brother and telling him she couldn’t find him on her flight and that this was how the error was discovered, she said.
However, none disagreed that chaos reigned supreme after the goof-up was discovered. Worse, the bus which had ferried the passengers to the Chennai-bound aircraft had left by then.
After some tense moments and frantic calls by the crew, the bus was back to rush the harried passengers to the right aircraft.
08/11/08 Sanjeev K. Ahuja and Sidhartha Roy/ Hindustan Times

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