Flighty schedules, stranded fliers

Mumbai: With airlines shuffling flight schedules at the last hour and failing to inform on time, commuters complain of being left at the airlines' mercy
If you have a flight to catch, do not be surprised if the airline reschedules it at the eleventh hour and forgets to inform you.
As MiD DAY found out, passengers are increasingly missing flights due to last minute changes in take-offs that weren't communicated to them.
The president of Air Passengers Association of India (APAI), Sudhakar Reddy, told MiD DAY that they receive hundreds of complaints every day about reschedules that passengers are not properly informed about. "We receive hundreds of complaints everyday about sudden reschedules.
This is happening because of the total failure of the DGCA in collusion with the airlines. The civil aviation ministry has not taken into consideration the suggestion or complaints of passengers or consumer bodies...''
26/10/10 Bipin Kumar Singh/MiD DAY

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Categories: airports Oct 2010, Indian Aviation- In General Oct 2010