Riyadh: Around 320 passengers were stranded at the King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) for nearly 26 hours before being lodged in a city hotel yesterday after their Air-India (AI) flight bound for the south Indian city of Calicut was canceled. The ordeal of the passengers is likely to end today when an AI aircraft will probably carry them back home, airline sources said here last night.
Asked about the arrangements being made by Air-India to airlift the stranded passengers, R. Ghosh, AI manager for the Central Province said there was some delay in Bombay that had led to this problem.
Another AI official, who preferred not to be named, admitted that the national carrier had been ignoring this highly-profitable Saudi-Indian sector for quite some time.
07/09/06 M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan/Arab News
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