BMI offers flights to stranded passengers

Passengers left stranded in India after airline Comtel cancelled its flights back to Birmingham have been rescued by another operator, it emerged today. BMI has offered the Comtel customers reduced price flights back to Heathrow.
For two weeks running Comtel has cancelled its return flights from Amritsar to Birmingham after tour operator Skyjet went bust, leaving passengers stranded overseas.
Passengers first became aware of a problem when around 180 people, some from Sandwell and Wolverhampton, were asked to pay an extra £20,000 to complete their journey home to Birmingham airport.
The delayed flight had made a routine fuel stop in Vienna when the airline realised it could not afford to fly home.
Since then Comtel has not run any of its flights from Amritsar to Birmingham, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded in the Punjab.
BMI spokesman Rick Wheeldon said today the airline runs three flights a week from Amritsar to Heathrow, and since the problems with Comtel emerged, it has operated seven flights.
01/12/11 Express & Star

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