AI flight cancelled,225 passengers face inconvenience

At least 225 passengers were found stranded at the local Rajasansi International Airport after an Air India flight was cancelled due to a technical snag on Saturday. The Amritsar-Dubai flight was first declared delayed by three hours and the passengers kept waiting. Finally,the AI authorities declared the flight cancelled,leaving the passengers bewildered. An AI official said the flight was to arrive from Dubai for the passengers to take them back but due to some some technical problem it could not reach Amritsar. He said they have arranged accommodation for the passengers and that they would be taken to their destinations on Sunday.

The passengers meanwhile were angry for the poor accommodation arranged for them and losses the flight cancellations would incur. Dilawar Singh,a resident of Nawashahr and a contractor,said he was going to Dubai with his two sons to sign an important contract which could not materialise. Another passenger said first the AI kept them hanging,saying the aircraft was arriving,and after the ordeal of more than five hours at the airport,they were informed that the flight would not go. “This is disgusting,”said she.