Passengers suffer as two Air India flights delayed

Dammam: Air India flights from here to Chennai and Mumbai were delayed inordinately this week causing several problems for passengers.
Flight number AI816 which was scheduled to fly on Monday at 11.45 P.M. to Chennai was delayed due to “technical problems.” The flight finally left on Wednesday at 9 A.M. Similarly, flight number AI810 to Mumbai which was scheduled to fly Tuesday at 3.30 P.M. was also delayed by 17 hours. However, passengers on this flight were accommodated in the AI816 flight going to Chennai.
As has happened several times in the past, Air India officials announced the delay only after issuing the boarding passes to the passengers. The “technical faults” in the aircraft were rectified only after engineers were flown in from Mumbai. However, to their credit, the airline provided accommodation to stranded passengers in different hotels in Dammam.
Many of the passengers who were on a short vacation to India were more disturbed as they lost about two days of their very precious time.
02/01/10 Faisal Aboobacker Ponnani/Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia

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