A 1.4-hour flight that took over a day

New Delhi/Jodhpur: What should have been a one-hour-forty-minute flight to Delhi from Jodhpur for 50-odd passengers of Jet Airways on Tuesday turned out to be over a day's journey for some of them.
The flight (9W 3312) was scheduled to take off from Jodhpur at 2pm but a technical snag grounded the plane until late Wednesday. Several passengers were left to drive to Jaipur, Lucknow or even Delhi late on Wednesday evening.
The nightmare for the passengers began on Tuesday afternoon when they boarded the 62-seater ATR 72-500. "We remained seated inside the aircraft for about 45 minutes without any airconditioning. The plane was like an oven," said a passenger. Finally the plane took off but returned only minutes later as the aircraft developed a snag.
What followed was a long wait on the ground. Later, the passengers were told that the flight had been cancelled due to "technical reasons" and it would take off at 10am on Wednesday. The airline offered budget hotels to passengers but many foreign tourists preferred to go back to the luxury hotels they had checked out to catch the flight, at their own expense. Jet sent some passengers who had to take international flights out of Delhi on Tuesday night by road.
22/10/09 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Oct 2009, Jet Airways Oct 2009