Pune: Around 160 passengers waiting to board the Air Asia flight (I5817) from Pune to Delhi were left in limbo for over 10 hours on Sunday at the Pune airport. Eventually, the passengers were allegedly told that the flight had been cancelled.
The flight was supposed to take off from Pune airport at around 11am and reach Delhi by around 1.15pm. “The flight was scheduled to fly at 11am so we reached the airport by 9am and completed all the formalities. So, we have been at the airport for 10 hours now. We kept asking the airline authorities to tell us what had caused the delay but they were not clear and just said that there was a technical problem,” said Ashu Madan, a passenger who had been waiting at the airport since 9am.