AI passengers brought from Kochi by road

As many as 35 passengers on board an Air India flight from Salalah to Thiruvananthapuram via Kochi were stranded at the Cochin International Airport on Thursday after the flight terminated its service in Kochi, apparently owing to shortage of crew members. The passengers staged a stir for being stranded here without any connection-flight available.

According to information from Air India’s office at the airport, there was no prior information about any such re-routing of the flight. While the AI services here tried to arrange a connecting flight to Thiruvananthapuram that leaves at 9.15 p.m., the passengers missed it as the flight from Salalah had landed after 8.30 p.m.

However, it is learnt that the Air India office arranged for the passengers to leave for Thiruvananthapuram by road.

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