Pune: When D Vijay and his family stepped off the Air India flight from Dubai on Sunday afternoon, little did they know that they would have to rush to a shopping mall to get some essentials.
Only two of their six items of checked luggage had arrived and after the family had waited by the baggage carousel for nearly half an hour, it was clear that the rest of it was not coming.
Vijay's family was among nearly 50 passengers on the IX 212 flight stranded without one or more items of their luggage at the Lohegaon airport. "About 50 passengers of the flight received half their luggage. The baggage could not come because of load restrictions. It will be put on the first available flight and delivered to the passengers according to the addresses that they have left with us," a spokesperson for Air India said on Sunday. She explained that circumstances such as poor weather conditions can result in certain load restrictions being imposed on a flight. In these situations, it is customary to leave some baggage behind; it would be sent to them later, she added.
03/06/13 Ananya Dutta/Times of India
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Only two of their six items of checked luggage had arrived and after the family had waited by the baggage carousel for nearly half an hour, it was clear that the rest of it was not coming.
Vijay's family was among nearly 50 passengers on the IX 212 flight stranded without one or more items of their luggage at the Lohegaon airport. "About 50 passengers of the flight received half their luggage. The baggage could not come because of load restrictions. It will be put on the first available flight and delivered to the passengers according to the addresses that they have left with us," a spokesperson for Air India said on Sunday. She explained that circumstances such as poor weather conditions can result in certain load restrictions being imposed on a flight. In these situations, it is customary to leave some baggage behind; it would be sent to them later, she added.
03/06/13 Ananya Dutta/Times of India
