Air India Pilots Leave Flight Midway At Jaipur, Say ‘Duty Hours Over’; Passengers Ferried By Road: Watch
Air India Pilots: The pilots of an Air India international flight on the way to Delhi from London left it midway, the reason they cited, "Our duty time is over". This caused a lot of distress to the passengers as the plane was parked at Jaipur airport for more than six hours. Later, the passengers were sent to Delhi by road.
Three international and two domestic flights were diverted to Jaipur on Sunday due to bad weather in Delhi. These included two flights of Air India, two of SpiceJet, and one of Gulf Stream.
Air India flight AI-112 was scheduled to reach Delhi at 6:00 am from London. However, it was diverted to Jaipur due to bad weather. The second Air India flight to be diverted was on the way to Dubai from Delhi. The Gulf Stream flight was going to Bahrain from Delhi while one flight of Spice Jet was on the way to Delhi from Pune while the other was coming from Guwahati.