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New Delhi: About 85 GoAir passengers to Leh were today left stranded in New Delhi after their flight was aborted in Jammu due to inclement weather and they were forced to return to the capital.
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A GoAir aircraft. Reuters[/caption]
GoAir’s Delhi-Jammu-Leh-Delhi flight (G8-193) took off from Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi as per schedule this morning and landed at Jammu airport.
But airline officials had to cancel the onward journey to Leh due to inclement weather and brought back all Leh-bound passengers to Delhi, airport sources said.
Expressing their inability to provide seats to all passengers in other airlines or alternate flight or hotel accommodation, the airline officials asked the passengers to take refund of their tickets.
Later, the issue was resolved after airline agreed to provide tickets for 7 February to those who wanted to travel on that day.
The airline also provided accommodation to those who didn’t have one in the city, the sources said.
Passengers, mostly Ladhakis, were returning from pilgrimage and had bought the tickets about six or seven months ago at a very discounted price.
Many claimed that they had no money to pay for hotel accommodation.
PTI