The ordeal of hundreds of Indian passengers who were stranded at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport over the weekend following a technical snag on board an Air India flight bound for Calicut finally ended Saturday.
The flight, originally set for departure on Wednesday, was rescheduled for the following day, only to be delayed again until Friday and finally, Saturday.
Nearly 800 passengers traveling to the southern Indian city were stranded for days as result of the constant rescheduling.
The Boeing 747 flight was slated to depart at 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, but developed a hydraulic snag that could not be rectified immediately, according to sources.
The delay created a domino effect when a Hyderabad flight, scheduled to fly out on Thursday night, was canceled and left on Friday evening.
Air India flew in two Airbus A320 aircraft from New Delhi and Mumbai to Jeddah on Thursday to ferry the stranded passengers, Air India Manager Feroz Khan told Arab News.
03/05/14 Irfan Mohammed/Arab News
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The flight, originally set for departure on Wednesday, was rescheduled for the following day, only to be delayed again until Friday and finally, Saturday.
Nearly 800 passengers traveling to the southern Indian city were stranded for days as result of the constant rescheduling.
The Boeing 747 flight was slated to depart at 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, but developed a hydraulic snag that could not be rectified immediately, according to sources.
The delay created a domino effect when a Hyderabad flight, scheduled to fly out on Thursday night, was canceled and left on Friday evening.
Air India flew in two Airbus A320 aircraft from New Delhi and Mumbai to Jeddah on Thursday to ferry the stranded passengers, Air India Manager Feroz Khan told Arab News.
03/05/14 Irfan Mohammed/Arab News
