Disruption of flight services leaves passengers stranded at Kochi airport

Mano Susan had to be at the Doha airport in Qatar on Tuesday morning, and in the afternoon he was scheduled for a connection flight with his husband to reach the Heathrow airport in London.

Instead, 52-year-old Mrs. Susan from Kakkanad continues to completely exhaus for the security check-in area of ​​Kochi airport. Monday midnight reached the airport with four friends. From Doha, Qatar Airways flights were initially planned to reach Kochi airport on Tuesday at 2.50 and return to Doha at 4.15, but Qatar did not reach Kochi Airport after temporarily closed the rising airspace following the rising tensions in West Asia on Monday night.

Although the airspace has been opened since then, flight programs continue to deteriorate. Susan, a housewife, said, “Later, the flight was told to get up around 8 am for Doha, but it was finally canceled. We chose to make repayment.”

A group of five friends had a two -week tour of England, Ireland and Scotland, and the deterioration could not be worse. Finally, on Wednesday morning, they reservations on another flight to London via Mumbai and they checked to a nearby hotel.

“Our experience explains how the impact of a war is not limited to the players who are involved, but also affects millions of people who have nothing to do with it. We had planned this trip for more than a year, they organized our leaves, and even if one day was delayed, he will throw a key on the whole route.

On Tuesday morning, 17 services were canceled to Kochi Airport and Kochi Airport. This included services for Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Ras al-Khaimah, Bahrain, Dammam and Kuwait. In a consulting published, the airport asked passengers to remain up to date by relevant airlines through SMS/E -Posta warnings and regularly control the flight status through the official website or airport screens of the airlines.

Later, the evening Indigo planned a service to Dubai. Air India Express announced that services to Western Asia in the early hours of Wednesday have been restarted. However, Qatar Airways Flight canceled QR 516 and QR 517 services on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. In a statement of the airport, Air said that India has not yet approved the restart of its activities.