Doha: Many low-income workers from different Asian countries arriving here for the first time to take up new jobs were stranded for several hours at the newly-opened Hamad International Airport (HIA) yesterday as representatives of their companies did not come on time to receive them.
Most of the arriving passengers this newspaper spoke to praised the facilities and services at the new airport, the world’s newest aviation hub, which partially opened on April 30 with 10 budget-airlines operating from it. They include flydubai, airarabia, Nepal Airlines and Air India Express.
But one passenger was unhappy at his baggage arriving late.
“I travelled by flydubai yesterday from Dubai and my baggage came today (yesterday). When I enquired about my missing baggage, I was told that they were not loaded from the origin,” said Mohammed Nimer, an Arab national working in Qatar.
Nimer said it should be the responsibility of the airline to deliver the missing baggage to his address.
“Why should I come to the airport again in this scorching heat for other’s mistake,” he asked.
The stranded passengers, mostly Nepalese and Indian labourers, who remained held up at the airport without food for several hours looked exhausted after their journey by airarabia and flydubai, which do not offer complementary food to their passengers free of cost.
02/05/14 The Peninsula
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Most of the arriving passengers this newspaper spoke to praised the facilities and services at the new airport, the world’s newest aviation hub, which partially opened on April 30 with 10 budget-airlines operating from it. They include flydubai, airarabia, Nepal Airlines and Air India Express.
But one passenger was unhappy at his baggage arriving late.
“I travelled by flydubai yesterday from Dubai and my baggage came today (yesterday). When I enquired about my missing baggage, I was told that they were not loaded from the origin,” said Mohammed Nimer, an Arab national working in Qatar.
Nimer said it should be the responsibility of the airline to deliver the missing baggage to his address.
“Why should I come to the airport again in this scorching heat for other’s mistake,” he asked.
The stranded passengers, mostly Nepalese and Indian labourers, who remained held up at the airport without food for several hours looked exhausted after their journey by airarabia and flydubai, which do not offer complementary food to their passengers free of cost.
02/05/14 The Peninsula
