Hundreds of passengers of IndiGo flight 6E 18, who were to travel to Mumbai, were stranded in Istanbul in Turkey after the Gurugram-headquartered domestic carrier abruptly cancelled its flight on Sunday without attributing any reason.
IndiGo staff at Istanbul Airport did not provide any information to the passengers and only said that the airline’s next flight to Mumbai is after "21 hours,” an affected passenger, who was later shifted to IndiGo’s Istanbul-Delhi flight told CNBC-TV18.
The Boeing 777 aircraft, which IndiGo wet-leased from Turkish Airlines in February this year, is grounded at Istanbul Airport owing to a “fuelling imbalance” according to airline sources.
Several passengers in Mumbai were also affected as the same aircraft was scheduled to operate the Mumbai-Istanbul flight on July 3.
In a response to CNBC-TV18’s query, IndiGo said the flight was cancelled due to technical reasons.
“IndiGo flight 6E 18 operating Istanbul-Mumbai-Istanbul on 2nd/3rd July was cancelled due to a technical issue. Passengers had been offered alternate options. The aircraft is back in operation after necessary maintenance. We regret the inconvenience caused to passenger,” the airline said in a statement.
03/07/2023 Madeeha Mujawar/CNBC TV18
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