8 hours in plane but no flight

New Delhi: For the time it would have taken them to fly to London, passengers of a British Airways flight sat inside the aircraft at IGI Airport. After eight hours spent cooped up inside the plane, passengers were finally told that the flight had been cancelled and were then shifted to a hotel.
This flight was just one casualty of the dense fog that crippled Delhi airport on Friday morning. With flight operations almost completely suspended for about six hours in the city, many passengers spent time seated inside planes at several airports across the country as they waited to depart for the capital.
Glady Robinson, a resident of Chennai, also reported a harrowing time at Delhi airport. "Our flight to Chennai was scheduled for 6.45am. We boarded at 6.20am and waited inside till 12.20pm when the flight finally took off. The doors had been kept open but it was dreadfully cold and very uncomfortable. The airline did serve breakfast but sitting for so long was quite a pain," he said.
The Air India morning flight to Patna was similarly delayed and passengers were made to sit inside for almost four hours.
31/12/11 Times of India

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Categories: airports Dec 2011