An Air India Express
(AIE) flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Sharjah with 170 passengers on board
had to return to the airport here following a snag in an avionics gadget.
The IX 535 flight that
took off from here at 8.15 a.m. retuned to the airport at 11.10 a.m. Airport
sources here said that the commander informed the Air Traffic Control of the
snag and his decision to return to Thiruvananthapuram. The flight landed after
dumping the ATF.
The airline managed to
arrange another aircraft to operate the service and the flight left for Sharjah
at 1.45 p.m., sources said.
The AIE services from
here were affected on Thursday on account of the strike by a section of Air
India (AI) pilots. According to an AI spokesman, IX 549
Thiruvananthapuram-Muscat flight, scheduled to depart at 9.25 a.m., and IX 481
Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi-Dammam flight, scheduled to leave at 2.50 p.m., had to
be cancelled.
AI 929
The airline announced
that the AI 929 Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi-Riyadh service on Wednesdays and
Fridays would operate only from Kochi till the strike was over. The airline
asked the passengers who had booked from Thiruvananthapuram to board the flight
from Kochi.
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