Pune: Nearly 250 Travellers Affected By Flight Delays & Mismanagement!

A person hardly plans their travel, expecting delays. So, if and when it happens, it’s truly an inconvenience. Something similar happened to the passengers travelling in the past two days through the Pune Airport. Two flights faced a lot of delay and confusion, leaving passengers disgruntled, and nearly 250 travellers were affected! Here’s what happened.

Pune Passengers Face Flight Delays

As revealed by the Pune Mirror, due to major delays, several passengers were affected at the Pune Airport. This was due to schedule disruption, logistics setbacks, and even poor communication that left them facing severe inconveniences. One of the flights was bound for Kolkata via Bhubaneswar. This flight was supposed to take off from Pune at 4 PM on Wednesday. However, after facing significant delays, this departure was postponed multiple times. The flight did ultimately take off at around 9 PM on the same day. And when the flight managed to reach Bhubaneswar around midnight, the passengers were left waiting on the flight for quite a bit of time. It was only later that they were told that due to technical issues, they would be required to disembark.

However, it was only afterwards that the passengers of the aircraft were informed that this was due to the crew exceeding their duty hours and not because of a technical fault. While the airline did offer to provide hotel accommodation, some passengers who were already distressed chose to remain at the airport itself. The flight finally reached Kolkata the next day, when the replacement crew arrived the next morning.

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Indore Pune Flight Also Affected

Many passengers were kept waiting for more than an hour in the aerobridge for this flight. They were not given any clear information, and were finally moved back to the terminal with the check-in process repeating. However, the flight did eventually depart, but it was four hours late! The delay for this was attributed to weather disruptions, which in turn affected the operations, leading to runway closures. Similarly, flights to and from Delhi were also delayed for a long time due to the heavy rains that lashed the national capital on Friday.

Such a series of flight disruptions and delays truly left passengers disgruntled with the operations and mismanagement by the crew at the airport.

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