Kolkata: Five people travelling to Kolkata from Mumbai were left stranded in an airline bus in the Mumbai airport apron area for over 45 minutes on Monday morning when the driver refused to budge. They eventually saw their 5am flight take off.
One of the stranded passengers who could not reach on time due to the bungling was Baby Koerie. She works as a domestic help in Mumbai and had borrowed Rs 7,500 from her employer to buy the air ticket so that she could attend her mother’s funeral. Despite repeated pleas by her and requests from other stranded passengers to put her on a flight operated by another airline, the Go First ground staff remained unmoved. The passengers finally reached Kolkata via Bengaluru around 2.30pm instead of 7.30am. “I just couldn’t believe my rotten luck. I was paying a fortune to get a last glimpse of my mother but that opportunity was denied,” sobbed Koerie.
