AI services to Dubai, Frankfurt-Los Angeles sectors disrupted
Two services of Air India to Dubai and Frankfurt-Los Angeles were disrupted as a Boeing aircraft, coming here from Dhaka, suffered bird-hit while landing at the IGI Airport here leading to protests by irate passengers.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Two services of Air India to Dubai and Frankfurt-Los Angeles were disrupted as a Boeing aircraft, coming here from Dhaka, suffered bird-hit while landing at the IGI Airport here leading to protests by irate passengers.
One of the four engines of the Boeing 747-400 plane was severely damaged in the incident when it landed here on Saturday evening.
The aircraft, which was to operate to Dubai yesterday morning, return and then fly off to Frankfurt and onwards to Los Angeles the same evening, had to be grounded, an Air India official told the media here, adding that as a consequence, the services on these two sectors were disrupted.
Though the official asserted that the passengers were accommodated in hotels yesterday, the passengers complained of lack of efforts on part of Air India to take care of them.
The official said there was a crunch in the number of aircraft as some have been deployed for the Haj operations.
However the airline managed to spare a Boeing 747 and sent it to the Frankfurt-Los Angeles this afternoon, while another aircraft took the stranded passengers to Dubai late this evening.
The flight disruption came in the backdrop of delays in several of its flights on three days in the past fortnight. These included services to London, New York, Birmingham, Toronto and Bangkok.
Acknowledging that technical problems and shortage of aircrafts and pilots had created the earlier problems, the official said this time it was a bird-hit which was an "airport issue" and not the airline's responsibility.
One of the four engines of the Boeing 747-400 plane was severely damaged in the incident when it landed here on Saturday evening.
The aircraft, which was to operate to Dubai yesterday morning, return and then fly off to Frankfurt and onwards to Los Angeles the same evening, had to be grounded, an Air India official told the media here, adding that as a consequence, the services on these two sectors were disrupted.
Though the official asserted that the passengers were accommodated in hotels yesterday, the passengers complained of lack of efforts on part of Air India to take care of them.
The official said there was a crunch in the number of aircraft as some have been deployed for the Haj operations.
However the airline managed to spare a Boeing 747 and sent it to the Frankfurt-Los Angeles this afternoon, while another aircraft took the stranded passengers to Dubai late this evening.
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The flight disruption came in the backdrop of delays in several of its flights on three days in the past fortnight. These included services to London, New York, Birmingham, Toronto and Bangkok.
Acknowledging that technical problems and shortage of aircrafts and pilots had created the earlier problems, the official said this time it was a bird-hit which was an "airport issue" and not the airline's responsibility.
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