Mumbai: A video of a group of Air India staffers partying when they should have been attending to a London-Delhi flight on an unscheduled stopover in the city, allegedly causing it to be delayed by three hours, has stirred trouble for officials in the upper echelons of management. The 1.04 minute video, which contains footage of over two dozen staffers dancing to Bollywood songs at a senior executive's promotion party in December, went viral on Thursday, with airline staffers quickly circulating it among themselves.
The delay pertains to flight AI-116, from London to Delhi, which was diverted to Mumbai on the morning of December 17 due to poor visibility caused by fog in the national capital. The aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was meant to leave for Delhi at 9.30 am, but took off at 12.30 pm. (reported by Mumbai Mirror in its edition dated December 19, 2013 headlined 'AI staff party delayed flight by three hours'). The airline blamed the elements for the hold-up. However, the All-India Service Engineer's Association (AISEA) had alleged in a December 17 letter to AI's chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan that the Dreamliner was delayed due to negligence and not weather conditions.
20/09/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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The delay pertains to flight AI-116, from London to Delhi, which was diverted to Mumbai on the morning of December 17 due to poor visibility caused by fog in the national capital. The aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was meant to leave for Delhi at 9.30 am, but took off at 12.30 pm. (reported by Mumbai Mirror in its edition dated December 19, 2013 headlined 'AI staff party delayed flight by three hours'). The airline blamed the elements for the hold-up. However, the All-India Service Engineer's Association (AISEA) had alleged in a December 17 letter to AI's chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan that the Dreamliner was delayed due to negligence and not weather conditions.
20/09/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
