AI lacks seats, leaves behind 25 passengers

Kolkata, Sep 19: An AirIndia flight lacking seats, left for its destination Port Blair without 25 passengers though all of them had tickets.

The airliner usually uses a 145-seater aircraft but today the plane was smaller with 120 seats, Air India officials said.

It was reported that Air-India's Kolkata-Port Blair flight left at 5.35 am without taking the passengers from NSC Bose international airport in Kolkata.

The passengers began protesting in the airport.

Air-India officials said it was decided that few of the left-out passengers would be sent by a JetLite flight to Port Blair while the rest would be provided hotel accommodation and taken on Sunday, Sep 20.

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