It seems that hitches in flight, especially domestic ones, are becoming increasingly common. More and more incidents of flights getting delayed are coming to light. The latest in the series of such incidents is IndiGo’s recent flight headed to Chennai. This particular flight was delayed by more than three hours and angry passengers took to Twitter and vented their frustration on the micro-blogging website. Here is how things went down in this incident.
IndiGo Dehradun-Chennai Flight Gets Delayed More Than 3 Hours
#6E518 from Dehradun to Chennai on 2nd July already delayed by around 2:30 hours… took off from DED at 1922 hrs….landed in LKO at 2020 hrs… Now waiting for the Captain in LKO airport for the past 50 minutes. No bother about passengers. #GoIndigo @IndiGo6E @DGCAIndia pic.twitter.com/ir4Kmv4ABT
— Ketharinath Kamalanathan (@kknath) July 2, 2023
The incident took place on an IndiGo flight headed to the airport in Chennai from the Dehradun airport. The flight was numbered 6E518 and was delayed by more than three hours. The flight, which took off on the 2nd of July was supposed to have a layover in Lucknow. However, because of poor management and organisation, the flight also had to stop in Delhi.
According to an article recently published by the DailyO, the flight was supposed to take off at 4:45 PM. However, it got delayed by two and a half hours and took off at 7:22 PM. It landed in Lucknow around 9 PM at which point it was revealed that the pilot was tired.
He asked for a change in his shift and was even angry that no replacement for him was found. He even encouraged the passengers to narrate the whole incident on Twitter. Since there was no one to relieve him at the Lucknow airport, the flight was then routed to Delhi where he would find a replacement.
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Flight Routed To Delhi Due To Absence Of Replacement
Dear @IndiGo6E my wife’s on a flight that has been delayed for 3+ hours now and is now been going to Delhi. If this is how you’re gonna treat regulars then god bless. This is not done.
Tagging the hon minister of civil aviation for resolution @JM_Scindia pic.twitter.com/wDlFrJLVni
— Sameer Mohan (@sleepyhead148) July 2, 2023
After waiting at the Delhi airport for quite some time, the replacement finally arrived and around 3 AM on the 3rd of July, the flight finally reached its destination in Chennai. Multiple people took to venting their frustration on Twitter.
The reason that the pilot refused to take the flight to its destination was that as per the DGCA, pilots could only fly up to a certain period of time without sleeping, after which, rest is mandatory. This particular pilot’s shift had gone on for so long that it violated this DGCA mandate.
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