Kingfisher’s winter schedule leaves passengers in dark

Bhubaneswar: When Sushmita arrived at the Biju Patnaik International Airport with her nine-year old son to check in for her Kingfisher flight to Mumbai at about 9.30 am on Sunday, it had already flown out.
She was not the only one to be deserted by the airline, a dozen others also had met the same fate. The Mumbai-bound flight, which leaves the Capital at 10.30 am, had taken off at 9.20 am itself.
The stranded passengers fumed and demanded why they were not informed of the change in flight schedule. They were told by the staff that the timing had changed with effect from Sunday.
Weird as it may sound but the airlines had chosen to inform a select few of the change leaving out a chunk of the passengers in dark about the schedule.
Most passengers were offered a refund; those who insisted on travelling had to take a circuitous route via Bengaluru while the rest were asked to travel on Monday.
The Kingfisher Airlines, however, attributed it to a fresh change in winter schedule of the flights.
26/10/09 ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports Oct 2009, Kingfisher Oct 2009