Passenger fainted at Delhi airport due to 20 hours delay in Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco. Air India flight number AI 183 was scheduled to take off at 3:20 PM on Thursday, but the flight was delayed for more than 20 hours due to a technical glitch. A passenger on board an Air India flight to San Francisco said that several people fainted due to malfunctioning air conditioning on the plane. The flight was scheduled to take off on Thursday afternoon, but is now scheduled to take off on Friday after a 20-hour delay.
Journalist Shweta Punj shared the details of this incident on social media platform X and said that flight number AI 183 was delayed for more than eight hours at Delhi Airport on Thursday. After this, the passengers were boarded in an air-conditioned plane.
In the post, he said that as a result of privatization, Air India AI 183 flight was delayed for more than 8 hours, passengers were forced to board the plane without air conditioning and when some people fainted on the flight. They were taken off the plane. This is an inhuman act.
He said that, in my childhood, I used to travel by Air India. In 2005 I shifted to America. Air India was my favorite airline. This is the airline of your country. So I used to use Air India flights.
He said in a post on Friday morning that passengers were sent to a hotel late at night. They were supposed to come back to the airport at 8 am and now when they reached the airport they were asked to go back to the hotel again.
In the post, he said that Air India was acquired by Tata in 2022. It has gone back a long way in these two and a half years. Now the way it is being served, it can be sued in any other country.
Responding to this post, Air India said that it is trying to fix all the loopholes.
On X, Air India said that, indeed, we are very sorry for this. Please rest assured that our team is actively working to fix all the bugs and appreciate your continued support. We are alerting our team to provide all necessary assistance to passengers.
