Two flights carrying 230 Haj pilgrims each landed at Raja Bhoj International Airport on Saturday morning at 3.30, about 2.30 hours behind its scheduled arrival time of 1.00 am and at 8.30 pm, also over 4 hours behind schedule. The third flight would be on Sunday followed by two flights each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
A total of nine flights will bring back 1,869 pilgrims of the State capital. The return flights for the pilgrims of Bhopal that started from Saturday will end on Wednesday.
Of the 230 pilgrims that returned in the first flight on Saturday morning 228 are from the State capital while there was one pilgrim each from Sehore and Ujjain.
18/11/12 The Pioneer
