Grounded flights, nixed plans peeve Amausi flyers
TNN | Feb 28, 2019, 06:43 IST
Representative imageLUCKNOW: The cancellation of five flights left hundreds of passengers stranded at Amausi airport here on Wednesday. Passengers said the last minute cancellations put all their travel plans in doldrums as many of them were scheduled to attend weddings.
The five flights connecting Lucknow with Srinagar, Chandigarh and Dehradun were cancelled after a high alert was sounded and nine airports in north Indian were shut down for some hours amid escalation in hostilities with Pakistan on Wednesday.
Amausi airport officials told TOI that the flights cancelled were 6E 577 Lucknow-Dehradun IndiGo Airlines, 6E 576 Srinagar-Lucknow IndiGo Airlines, 6E 588 Dehradun-Lucknow Indi-Go Airlines, 9W 3524 Lucknow-Chandigarh Jet Airways, and 9W 3523 Chandigarh-Lucknow Jet Airways.
“I had to attend a wedding in Srinagar but could not go after the flight got cancelled,” said Roshan, 45, a businessman from Lucknow. “We were not told about the reason for cancellation but the airlines said that the money would be refunded,” he said.
“My daughter had to come from Chandigarh to attend an official meeting here. She could not even get a train reservation as her flight got cancelled. Now, she is coming by road,” said Tarun Kumar, a resident of Jopling Road.
“Since morning we started getting queries from passengers about the status of their flights. Many were scared to travel in wake of soaring tensions on Indo-Pak border,” said Vipin Kumar, a tour operator.
Some passengers cancelled their tickets after news of air strikes and counter air strikes in the Indian air space trickled in.
“We were booked on a flight to Dubai but cancelled the ticket at the last minute,” said Zaheer Ahmad, a city-based businessman. Mohammad Illyas, a tour operator said, some passengers cancelled their trips soon after the news of heightened tensions in Kashmir started coming in on Wednesday morning.
The five flights connecting Lucknow with Srinagar, Chandigarh and Dehradun were cancelled after a high alert was sounded and nine airports in north Indian were shut down for some hours amid escalation in hostilities with Pakistan on Wednesday.
Amausi airport officials told TOI that the flights cancelled were 6E 577 Lucknow-Dehradun IndiGo Airlines, 6E 576 Srinagar-Lucknow IndiGo Airlines, 6E 588 Dehradun-Lucknow Indi-Go Airlines, 9W 3524 Lucknow-Chandigarh Jet Airways, and 9W 3523 Chandigarh-Lucknow Jet Airways.
“I had to attend a wedding in Srinagar but could not go after the flight got cancelled,” said Roshan, 45, a businessman from Lucknow. “We were not told about the reason for cancellation but the airlines said that the money would be refunded,” he said.
“My daughter had to come from Chandigarh to attend an official meeting here. She could not even get a train reservation as her flight got cancelled. Now, she is coming by road,” said Tarun Kumar, a resident of Jopling Road.
“Since morning we started getting queries from passengers about the status of their flights. Many were scared to travel in wake of soaring tensions on Indo-Pak border,” said Vipin Kumar, a tour operator.
Some passengers cancelled their tickets after news of air strikes and counter air strikes in the Indian air space trickled in.
“We were booked on a flight to Dubai but cancelled the ticket at the last minute,” said Zaheer Ahmad, a city-based businessman. Mohammad Illyas, a tour operator said, some passengers cancelled their trips soon after the news of heightened tensions in Kashmir started coming in on Wednesday morning.
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