Hyderabad to Delhi by air, in 24 hours

Mumbai: It took nearly 24 hours for nearly 200 passengers on JetLite’s Hyderabad-Delhi flight to reach their destination Delhi instead of the usual 1.50 hours on Jan 20.
Actor and fitness instructor Reema Sarin was one such harried passenger on JetLite’s S2 242 Hyderabad-Delhi flight who took 24 hours to reach Delhi. The flight was scheduled to leave from Shamshabad airport at 4.20pm on January 20 but got delayed by two hours and later by two more hours.
“The flight eventually departed at 8.15pm but at 9.40pm, with 40 minutes left to land at the Delhi airport, the pilot announced that due to intense fog in Delhi the flight was being diverted back to Hyderabad. We all got a little irritated, as we had waited all day to fly and it had been a long day for us,” Sarin said.
The flight landed at Hyderabad at 11.30pm and by midnight, the passengers alleged that the airline refused to offer accommodation and asked them to fend for themselves.
“There was a bandh that day in Hyderabad and there were very few cabs running. The Airport Bus - AeroExpress too wasn’t running.
Sarin then hired a cab and got herself booked in a hotel that was 6kms away from the highway and paid Rs8000 for a night. She said that a one way trip from the airport into the city costs Rs600 but she had to pay Rs1200 as she was asked to report back to the airport at 6am for a 8am flight the next day. Some passengers even spent the night at the airport. When the passengers came in the next day they were told that the flight will leave at noon.
“It is then that we put our foot down as we had gone through a lot of torture. The airline finally put us on a 4.15pm flight after 24 hrs of torture,” she alleged.
23/01/10 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Jan 2010, JetLite Jan 2010