Passengers suffer as flights delayed

Patna: A large number of air travellers were stranded for several hours at Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport here on Friday as most of the flights coming from Delhi were delayed.
Air India flight, IC 409, which is scheduled at 8.20 am, arrived here about two hours late. This delay has caused harassment to about 90 Delhi-bound passengers here at the airport.
Chaotic situation prevailed during afternoon as many as 300 Delhi-bound and Mumbai-bound passengers were kept waiting for their flights which were delayed for nearly two hours.
Indigo flight (6E-180), which comes here from Mumbai via Delhi was also delayed for two hours. The scheduled arrival of the plane here is 2 pm and it returns to Mumbai just after 30 minutes. Delhi-Patna Air India flight, (IC 407), which is scheduled at 1.55 pm, also arrived two hours late. Agitated passengers complained to the airport authorities that adequate seating arrangements were not available for them.
20/11/10 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Nov 2010