Air India flight delayed by 6-hours due to 'technical reasons'
What's the story
About 170 passengers of Air India's Delhi-Kochi-Dubai flight AI 933, scheduled to depart at 5:10am, were held up at Delhi's IGI Airport for almost 6 hours, with the airline saying it was due to technical reasons.
However, the airline sources claimed that the delay was because of non-availability of the crew. "When the problem resolved the flight took off at 11am," a source added.
Another flight delayed
AI's Delhi-Tokyo flight also remained stranded for almost 7nhours
Passengers of Air India's Delhi-Tokyo flight, scheduled to leave last night, also remained stranded for almost 7 hours due to a problem with the air conditioning system, the sources said.
The Flight AI 306 with 171 passengers on board was supposed to depart from IGI Airport at 9:15pm yesterday, but it took off at 4 am after the problem was fixed, they said.
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AI's tweet on flight delay
#FlyAI : #update : AI 933 Delhi- Kochi -Dubai is held up at Delhi due to technical reasons . Revised ETD is 1100 hrs. We sincerely apologise for the delay and inconvience caused to our esteemed Passengers.
— Air India (@airindiain) June 30, 2018