Air India Ahmedabad passengers sent to Delhi as Newark flight canceled

Ahmedabad, 9 November 2014

Air India canceled the AI-191 Mumbai-Newark flight with 191 passengers due to a technical snag yesterday.

In a staement, Air India said when the snag was rectified, the FDTL (flight duty time limit) of the cabin crew came into being and thus had to cancel the flight.

The airline further said out of the 191 passengers, 44 were provided hotel accommodation and the rest who came from Mumbai were given taxi fares. All of them were accommodated on today’s flight at 0130 hours which had full load of 303 passengers.

The passengers who came from Ahmedabad were sent to Delhi for the JFK flight which departed at 0200 hrs today from the national capital, the airline said.

As regards the delay of AI-131 Mumbai-London flight for three hours, the airline blamed it on the mock drill at the airport.

“Though the flight was ready for departure at 1400 hrs yesterday, it was delayed to 1620 hrs due to a mock drill by MIAL which lasted till 1530 hrs,” AI said.