Crew rostering error delays AI flights
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Erroneous crew rostering by national carrier Air India left more than 300 passengers stranded at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram for more than 12 hours from Monday night. Economic Times quoting an Air India official said that the two flights of Air India Express which were scheduled to depart on Monday night at 7 pm to Dubai and 7.50 pm to Abu Dhabi, respectively, could not take off as the pilots had not done a minimum of 500 hours flying. “During the monsoon season, it is mandatory that pilots should have completed a minimum of 500 hours. A faulty scheduling from those concerned caused this delay,” the official was quoted saying.”Both flights did take off on Tuesday morning after 8 am when experienced pilots were put in charge.”But another official revealed that the pilots who were deputed to fly out the delayed flights were supposed to man flights to Muscat at 8.30 am and Sharjah at 8.45 am, respectively, Tuesday morning. This, the report said, had led to more chaos. It added that there was a huge crowd of agitated passengers to Muscat and Sharjah who had arrived early and were waiting.
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