Airline denies demanding £20k from passengers for fuel

An airline has denied asking passengers to pay £20,000 towards the cost of fuel to complete their journey to the UK.
Passengers said they were asked for the money when a flight with Austrian airline Comtel Air from Amritsar in India stopped in Vienna to refuel.
Other passengers have been stuck in India after flights were cancelled.
The airline, which uses Birmingham Airport, said it hoped to get people back to the UK from India as soon as possible at not extra cost to them.
Bhunpinder Kandra, director of passenger services for Comtel Air, told BBC News that "there may have been some operational problem" in Vienna but denied people were asked to pay towards more fuel.
But the Press Association reported him saying: "I have heard what happened, it shouldn't have happened, and I will investigate why it happened.
16/11/11 BBC

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