Nagpur: After more than a day of being holed up inside a convention centre on the outskirts of Brussels, stranded passengers of Jet Airways comprising mostly Indian citizens, have now been shifted to hotels in Amsterdam. At 8.45pm (IST) on Thursday, Jet Airways tweeted that it had arranged for 15 buses to move its passengers to hotels in the Dutch capital.
Passengers will be taken to their final destinations on Thursday evening, the airline added later. Minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj also confirmed the development.
Koshy Jacob, a retired wing commander of Indian Air Force, along with his wife and daughter got stuck in Brussels after his flight to New York made a stopover on Monday just half an hour before the bomb explosion. "This is a big relief to over 800 passengers of Jet Airways here at the convention centre as we were all eager to continue our journey," said Jacob.
This brings to end a harrowing wait for those whose flights got cancelled after Belgium shut down its airspace following the terror attacks. The decision by Jet Airways to move them came at the right time as despite the chilly weather in Brussels, temperatures inside the convention centre had started to flare up.
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Passengers will be taken to their final destinations on Thursday evening, the airline added later. Minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj also confirmed the development.
Koshy Jacob, a retired wing commander of Indian Air Force, along with his wife and daughter got stuck in Brussels after his flight to New York made a stopover on Monday just half an hour before the bomb explosion. "This is a big relief to over 800 passengers of Jet Airways here at the convention centre as we were all eager to continue our journey," said Jacob.
This brings to end a harrowing wait for those whose flights got cancelled after Belgium shut down its airspace following the terror attacks. The decision by Jet Airways to move them came at the right time as despite the chilly weather in Brussels, temperatures inside the convention centre had started to flare up.
24/03/16 Abhishek Choudhari/Times of India
