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| Airlines operates additional flight to accommodate Azad's guests | | Drama at Srinagar Airport | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 24: The dense fog and inclement weather conditions put the airline companies at Srinagar airport in a tight spot on Tuesday as a few flights which arrived here failed to take off and returned to their respective destinations, leaving passengers fuming because they were asked by the Government-run airlines to shell extra money for flying to Delhi.
Sources told Early Times a Government-run airlines had deployed an additional flight from Delhi on Tuesday to ensure that guests of senior Congress leader and leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad attend the marriage ceremony of Azad's kin here in Srinagar.
"Most morning flights were cancelled due to fog which provided the Government-run airlines a chance to sell the tickets at exorbitant rates in the afternoon," sources said.
They said in order to accommodate the passengers, who paid huge amounts to get a ticket to Delhi and other places, airlines officials told the passengers who had booked their tickets in advance that their flight has been cancelled and they would be accommodated after weather improves.
The airlines dumping passengers who had paid normal airfare infuriated them and they lodged a protest against the airlines. However, they were told by the airlines officials that they have to wait or pay the extra charges.
Situation took an interesting turn late in the afternoon as the pilot of the Government-run airlines which had sold the tickets at the exorbitant rates refused to take off citing dense fog as a reason. "Airlines officials tried their best to persuade the pilot to operate the flight but he refused as he didn't want to put the lives of passengers at stake," sources added.
They said, "Airlines officials were left red faced as the passengers they had dropped to accommodate new passengers left the airport fuming, while the passengers who had purchased the new tickets threatened to sue the airlines for looting them without ascertaining whether flight would be able to take off or not."
A few passengers while talking to Early Times alleged that airlines officials sold the tickets in black and ensured that they mint money. They blackmailed the passengers and asked them to shell out huge amounts. "We had never even imagined that Government-run airlines would loot the passengers and would leave its old passengers who had booked their tickets in advance in lurch," they said.
They threatened to move court and sue the airlines for making the passengers suffer. |
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