Air India website puts flight chartered for BSF on ‘sale’

Kolkata: An Air India flight chartered for the Border Security Force (BSF) found its way into the regular bookings section of the airline's website, allowing civilians book their seats in the exclusive military-only aircraft. One of those who had logged on to book a seat on AI-3255 — the Silchar-Kolkata flight on July 8 — was Keith Menezes, the director of a tea company. Menezes would have probably had to return from Silchar airport had he not called up the station manager to reconfirm the flight before making the payment. "I had booked a flight to Kolkata for June 29. But my trip got postponed and I tried on Thursday night to change the ticket to July 8. Since the AI website doesn't accept flight changes, I decided to first book the flight and then make the cancellation," Menezes said.
When he logged on — unaware like most others that an AI flight number beginning with '3' indicates it's chartered —AI-3255 was one of the options along with two other flights.
30/06/12 Stuti Agrawal/Times of India

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