A Bengaluru-bound Air Asia flight originally scheduled to depart from Pune Airport at 5.25 am was delayed by over 10 hours, leaving over 100 passengers stranded at the airport. The flight was re-scheduled multiple times due to technical issues and could not take off even as the airline eventually arranged another flight – originally destined for travel to Jaipur – for the stranded passengers.
First the delay and then the diversion only exacerbated the chaos, with many passengers cancelling critical appointments and meetings. The passengers reported receiving initial messages about a minor delay, only to have the departure time pushed back again and again. It wasn’t before 3.15 pm that Air Asia managed to accommodate the stranded passengers in the alternative flight that was originally scheduled to travel to Jaipur.
