Terminal trouble on but 2 airlines to move in today

New Delhi: Saturday: 54 departures, 14 delays of an hour or more and about six cancellations. This is how Air India's official record from Delhi stood a day before Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines are scheduled to move their domestic operations into terminal 3 of IGI airport. While airline officials said the situation had improved considerably and there were fewer delays, passengers who got stuck at the airport due to flights delayed by 3-5 hours were not so upbeat.
"Our flight IC 464 from Dehradun was scheduled to depart for Delhi at 11.10am but we finally left at 5pm. We had a connecting Spicejet flight to Varanasi at 2.20pm but now that we have missed it, we will have to stay the night in Delhi and book another ticket on Sunday. If only AI had told us of this delay we could have taken a taxi to Delhi. Now we have lost Rs 13,000 in the cancelled Spicejet tickets and would be spending more on an overnight stay here," said professors B Mishra and Sanjay Singh from BHU.
Passengers of a Dehradun flight and a Srinagar flight were also reportedly upset with the airline and created quite a scene at the airport. The Dehradun flight, scheduled to depart at 9.30am, finally left at 3pm while the Srinagar flight departed at 4pm against 11.30am.
According to sources, between 1am and 9am, AI operated 34 flights of which 12 arrivals and 13 departures were delayed by more than an hour. Less than 20% of their flights in this duration operated with a delay of less than an hour.
Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines will also be moving bag and baggage into the terminal on Sunday. Jet Airways' first departure from the terminal would be 9W 2637 to Lucknow at 5.20am while the first Jetlite flight would be S2 791 to Indore at 5.35am.
14/11/10 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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