Coimbatore: Protesting the "abnormal delay" in an Air Deccan flight's departure from Chennai, over 40 passengers today refused to alight at the airport here and resorted to a dharna.
According to the passengers, the flight, scheduled to take off from Chennai at 6.10 a.m, took off after a delay of three hours and landed here around 10.30 a.m ,instead of the usual time of 7.10 a.m.
After airport officials and Air Deccan management pleaded with them, the passengers got down. To compensate the delay, all the passengers were given a complementary flight ticket, management sources said.
25/10/06 Chennai Online
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