Passengers Protest at Kannur Airport Over Air India Flight Delay

Passengers protested and created a scene at the airport here on Monday morning following the rescheduling of an Air India Express flight from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram, airline sources said. 

Visuals aired on TV channels showed irate passengers shouting at airline personnel at the airport accusing them of not giving advance notification about the flight delay. Airline sources said that a flight scheduled to arrive in the morning from Muscat got delayed as it was grounded there due to some technical reasons.

The



same flight was scheduled to depart to Thiruvananthapuram from here, they said. "Therefore, the flight to Thiruvananthapuram got delayed. The flight from Muscat arrived subsequently and the flight to Thiruvananthapuram will leave shortly. 

The passengers were informed about the delay in advance. Those who protested at the airport were aware of the delay," an airline official said. The flight to Thiruvananthapuram was scheduled to take off at around 7 am but was delayed by several hours and will depart around 1 pm, the official said.