Snag delays Emirates Airways' Chennai-Dubai flight by over 8 hours

CHENNAI: The departure of a Dubai-bound Emirates Airways flight scheduled to take off from here at 9.45 am today with 369 passengers was rescheduled to the evening following a technical snag, airport sources said.

The passengers had boarded the flight in the morning but were made to wait in the aircraft for three hours before being disembarked citing the technical snag, they said.

They were provided lunch at the airport and later shifted to a hotel around 3 pm, the sources said adding the flight was expected to take off late this evening.