Ludhiana: Friday was no different for those opting to take the lone Air India flight out of Ludhiana as 23 passengers were left to fend for themselves with the plane being diverted to Chandigarh. The usual excuse was bad weather, which in the absence of basic navigational equipment at Sahnewal airport did not allow the pilot to land. Of course the sky was slightly overcast.
Eleven out of 23 Delhi-bound passengers were packed into three separate cars to ferry them to Delhi and Chandigarh by road against the cost of their tickets. The rest decided to stay back.
Earlier, chaos followed soon after the diversion announcement as checked-in passengers were first flushed out of the waiting lounge and then hurriedly shoved into taxis to leave for Chandigarh airport, where the Delhi-bound Kingfisher IT 2640 had been instructed to accommodate them.
However, within 10 minutes they were called back from the taxi parking area as visibility looked to be improving. When the pilot refused to land due to lack of navigational equipment, the passengers were left confused and furious.
'It is unbelievable,' said a traveller Dilpreet Brar, executive director of Max Healthcare based in Delhi. Brar, who along with her three colleagues, had come from Delhi to Bhatinda for an event told TOI she was already fatigued after a taxing road journey from Bhatinda to the airport.
02/07/11 Rohan Dua/Times of India
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