Air India flight leaves 25 confirmed passengers behind

Kolkata: Port Blair bound Air India flight on Saturday took off from here, leaving behind 25 passengers with confirmed tickets as the airbus did not have the capacity to provide required seats to them.
"The incident took place today (Saturday) morning when IC 287 had to take off without 25 passengers. Originally we were supposed to operate a 320 Airbus which has the capacity of 145 passengers.
"But due to some operational reasons we could not use Airbus 320. We used Airbus 319 which has the capacity of 120 passengers. Thus, 25 passengers were stranded," an Air India official told IANS.
19/09/09 IANS/Economic Times

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