Thiruvananthapuram: A woman identified as D.P. Ben and her five-year-old son travelling in the Air India (AI) flight 967 from Chennai to Sharjah on Wednesday night were off-loaded at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport here as they did not reportedly have valid travel documents to fly to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The commercial staff of the airline, who boarded the A-320 aircraft as part of a transit passenger check, caught them, airport sources told The Hindu.
It was found that the two had shifted from the seats allotted and had tickets and boarding passes only to fly from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram.
The incident came to light when two others, who had booked tickets from Chennai to Sharjah in the same flight, alighted at the airport here. D.P. Ben and her son occupied the seats of that duo. At the time, passengers from Thiruvananthapuram were boarding the flight.
03/10/13 S Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
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The commercial staff of the airline, who boarded the A-320 aircraft as part of a transit passenger check, caught them, airport sources told The Hindu.
It was found that the two had shifted from the seats allotted and had tickets and boarding passes only to fly from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram.
The incident came to light when two others, who had booked tickets from Chennai to Sharjah in the same flight, alighted at the airport here. D.P. Ben and her son occupied the seats of that duo. At the time, passengers from Thiruvananthapuram were boarding the flight.
03/10/13 S Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
