New Delhi: Air India's 1990-era Airbus A-320s with faulty airconditioning and non-functional auxiliary power units (APU), which are meant to run cabin ACs on ground, are causing severe heartburn to flyers in this searing heat.
On Friday, things came to such a pass that 150-odd passengers of a Srinagar-Delhi flight staged an impromptu dharna at the tarmac of Jammu airport - near the wheels of the plane - as the aircraft remained on ground in the temple town for over 1.5 hours with a non-functional APU that led to no cooling in the aircraft.
Despite very strict security at sensitive Jammu, all passengers alighted from the plane where the temperature had climbed over 40 degrees celsius. Even after the plane was prepared to take off for Delhi, the passengers kept sitting on the tarmac, demanding answers from AI for not having AC in the aircraft in this climate.
28/06/14 Times of India
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On Friday, things came to such a pass that 150-odd passengers of a Srinagar-Delhi flight staged an impromptu dharna at the tarmac of Jammu airport - near the wheels of the plane - as the aircraft remained on ground in the temple town for over 1.5 hours with a non-functional APU that led to no cooling in the aircraft.
Despite very strict security at sensitive Jammu, all passengers alighted from the plane where the temperature had climbed over 40 degrees celsius. Even after the plane was prepared to take off for Delhi, the passengers kept sitting on the tarmac, demanding answers from AI for not having AC in the aircraft in this climate.
28/06/14 Times of India
