Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Snag grounds 250 AI flyers to Jeddah at Mumbai airport for 6 hours

Mumbai:  Two hundred and fifty passengers booked on an Air India (AI) flight to Jeddah spent two hours sitting in the aircraft and another four hours at the Mumbai airport terminal as the plane didn't take off due to a technical glitch.
At the time of going to press, it wasn't clear if the flight had taken off.
The airline allegedly did not specify the actual reason for the delay until the passengers lost their cool and shouted slogans against it.
Flight AI 965 to Jeddah via Hyderabad was scheduled to take-off from Mumbai at 5.30pm. The 250 passengers boarded the flight on time and waited for take-off. However, the flight did not take-off at all.
18/06/13 Times of India
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