Calcutta: Around 30 New York-bound passengers from Calcutta had to cancel their trips on Sunday as flights could not leave for the US east coast because of Hurricane Irene.
Airline officials said the situation might improve on Monday but could not rule out the possibility of cancellations and delays.
Erendro Singh, a postgraduate student in public administration at Harvard University, was scheduled to take the Emirates flight from Calcutta to Dubai on Sunday on his way back to the US. He had come to Imphal on August 1 on vacation.
“I did not take the flight for Dubai today as airline officials told me that I would be stranded there. There is a long queue of New York-bound passengers in Dubai. So I am staying in Calcutta tonight and will take a decision tomorrow,” said the 29-year-old, who flew to Calcutta from Imphal on Sunday. Emirates cancelled both its flights from Dubai to New York on Sunday.
The Delhi-New York leg of Air India’s Calcutta-Delhi-New York flight could not be operated for the second consecutive day on Sunday. The Calcutta-Delhi flight, however, is running on schedule.
29/08/11 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph
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