Instead of what would have been a routine three-hour flight between Pune and Chennai, it turned out to be a 22-hour ordeal for the passengers on board the Kingfisher Airlines flight IT 414.
It turned out to be a nightmarish experience for the 30 odd passengers on board the Kingfisher Airlines flight IT 414.
Instead of what would have been a routine three-hour flight between Pune and Chennai, it turned out to be a 22-hour ordeal for the passengers .
Flight IT 141 which was to take off from the Pune airport at 5.20 pm on Wednesday, was delayed following a technical snag.
“Once the boarding pass was issued we were made to embark the aircraft around 4.50 pm on Wednesday and were made to sit there till 7 pm. The airline crew kept telling us that a minor technical snag was causing the delay which they would rectify soon. Finally at 7 pm we are asked to disembark and informed that the flight would take off in the early hours of Thursday,” Guruprasad, a passenger told Deccan Herald.
He added that the passengers were provided accommodation at a hotel and their flight would be the first one to take off on Thursday. That never happened and instead it took off only at 1.30 pm.
The passengers’ woes did not end there as the flight then landed at the Bangalore Airport, where they were again asked to disembark . It had once again developed a technical snag.
The passengers were then asked to board an ATR flight belonging to Kingfisher Airlines which finally left Bangalore at 2.45 pm.
Three German nationals who were on board said that their entire business schedule went haywire due to the delay.
The Kingfisher Airlines’ officials at the Bangalore airport had a different tune to sing.
They said that the reason for the delay was due to late arrival of the aircraft from Pune and they were not aware of any technical snag.
