Sudden cancellation of Ahmedabad-London flight AI 131

Ahmedabad, 8 December, 2014

Over 160 passengers of Air India flight AI 131 Ahmedabad-Mumbai-London were stuck at the Ahmedabad airport due to sudden cancellation of Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight.

The passengers were boarded first but later asked to leave the plane due to technical problem in air craft.

The flight was originally scheduled to depart from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Patel airport at 3.45 am to reach Mumbai at 5.00 am. Passengers were first told that flight was little delayed and it would leave for Mumbai at 4.50 am. Passengers were told that as per rescheduled time, AI 131 will reach Mumbai at 6.05 am. From Mumbai, AI 131 was to leave for London at 7.00 am as per schedule.

However, Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight didn’t take off at all, while connecting Mumbai-London flight took off at 7.47 am without taking Ahmedabad passengers.

Some students who were going to Mumbai to appear in exam early in the morning, had to purchase tickets of business class of other airline. Some others whose visa was going to expire today were tense.

Till afternoon, there was no clarity on what should passengers do now.