{"id":273837,"date":"2019-05-13T05:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273837"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:41:23","slug":"spicejet-bengaluru-delhi-non-stop-turns-into-over-15-hour-one-stop-ordeal-for-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-bengaluru-delhi-non-stop-turns-into-over-15-hour-one-stop-ordeal-for-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet Bengaluru-Delhi non-stop turns into over 15-hour, one-stop ordeal for flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should have been a just under three-hour-long journey from Bengaluru to Delhi, turned out to be an over 15-hour and one-stop ordeal for passengers of SpiceJet\u2019s flight SG-8720 on Friday night. The flight, which has a schedule departure time of 10 pm, took off around 11:30 pm, and then due to a snag diverted to Nagpur where passengers allege they were kept holed up inside the Boeing 737 all night long before an alternate aircraft took them to their destination, Delhi. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flight landed in Nagpur one hour later (after leaving Bengaluru). (SpiceJet) kept us locked in the plane for six hours and then left us inside the airport for 4 hours after that. At 10 am (Saturday) they have boarded us in a new plane and again we are again locked in the plane for the last 1.5 hours and still haven\u2019t taken off,\u201d said a passenger on the flight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should have been a just under three-hour-long journey from Bengaluru to Delhi, turned out to be an over 15-hour and one-stop ordeal for passengers of SpiceJet\u2019s flight SG-8720 on Friday night. The flight, which has a schedule departure time of 10 pm, took off around 11:30 pm, and then due to a snag diverted to Nagpur where passengers allege they were kept holed up inside the Boeing 737 all night long before an alternate aircraft took them to their destination, Delhi. \u201cThe flight landed in Nagpur one hour later (after leaving Bengaluru). (SpiceJet) kept us locked in the plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}