Flight cancellation: Passengers protest at Hyderabad airport

Hyderabad: A group of  passengers including a  Congress MP from Chhattisgarh, on Sunday staged  a protest at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport  here after an Alliance Air  flight from the city to Jagdalpur was cancelled.

Alliance Air said the  flight 9I885 which was  scheduled to operate on  Hyderabad-Jagdalpur-Raipur route was cancelled  due to technical reasons.

Earlier, the Congress  MP from Bastar in Chhattisgarh Deepak Baij in a  series of tweets said they  were forced to stage protest at the Hyderabad airport against cancellation  of the Hyderabad - Jagdalpur flight. He further said  passengers were facing  problems as the flight was  cancelled “without any  reason”.

Baij also shared few  photos and videos of passengers along with himself  sitting on a ‘dharna’ on the  premises of the airport. Alliance Air tweeted: “We deeply regret the  inconvenience caused to  all our esteemed passengers due to cancellation  of flight 9I885 which was  scheduled to operate on  Hyderabad - Jagdalpur -  Raipur route due to technical reasons.” “For the convenience of passengers,  hotel accommodation has  been provided at Hyderabad and an additional  flight is being planned for  tomorrow morning to get  our passengers reach their  destination,” it said in another tweet.

Alliance Air is a regional arm of Air India. -(PTI)