New Delhi: What was to have been a brief two-day trip from Kathmandu to Kolkata and back has turned into an extended nightmare for US citizen Hugh Rossi who is now stuck hundreds of kilometers away in Delhi.
Rossi, in Nepal for a mountaineering expedition with a group of 10, decided to fly to Kolkata on Thursday to meet some Missionaries of Charity Sisters. However, the Air India pilots' strike saw his direct flight to Kolkata being cancelled and Rossi was instead flown to Delhi. "Airline officials in Kathmandu told me only after I reached the airport that they would fly me to Delhi and from there to Kathmandu. We left Nepal at 4pm, reached Delhi a couple of hours later, waited for another couple of hours and was then flown to Kolkata where we reached only around midnight," said Rossi.
Since it was too late to travel from the airport to the Missionaries of Charity home, Rossi decided to spend the night at the airport. In the morning, Air India officials told him that no flight to Kathmandu was operating and, hence, it would be safer for him to travel back to Delhi on the next available flight and from there get back to Kathmandu.
30/04/11 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India
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