Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Passengers at Delhi airport created a ruckus on January 3 after an IndiGo flight to Purnea was delayed, triggering anger among travellers who said the service had already faced disruptions a day earlier. According to passengers, IndiGo flight 6E 9076, scheduled to operate from Delhi to Purnea, was delayed on January 3 after having already been cancelled a day before forcing them to reschedule their tickets.
The repeated disruption led to furious scenes at the boarding counter, with passengers protesting the delay in departure. Several passengers said the flight had been cancelled on January 2 as well, following which they had rearranged their travel plans.
The passengers claimed, the airline cited bad weather as the reason for the delay. Some passengers further alleged that airline staff later informed them that there was no pilot available to operate the flight. Meanwhile, IndiGo had earlier in the day issued advisories warning passengers about possible delays and cancellations of several flights due to “reduced visibility and fog” at multiple airports.
The incident comes just days after IndiGo, on December 29 had cancelled as many as 118 flights across its network due to a mix of bad weather and operational reasons. Of these, six services were cancelled due to operational constraints, while the remaining flights were called off owing to adverse weather conditions at different airports.
