Delay in departure of Air India Express puts passengers to hardship

Thiruvananthapuram: Inordinate delay by an Air Express flight bound for Doha from here put 160 passengers to severe hardship since last night.

Many of the passengers were migrant workers for whom it was important to reach the places of their work in time, the aggrieved passengers said.

The airline officials put "operational reasons" as the cause for the overnight delay in departure of flight AI 457, which was to have taken off at 8.45 pm last night.

The flight was expected to take off this afternoon, airline sources said.

The stranded passengers were accommodated in hotels.

31/07/10 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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