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Goa: 14 Indigo Passengers Reach Boarding Gate 'Late', Miss Flight To Hyderabad

Goa: 14 Indigo Passengers Reach Boarding Gate 'Late', Miss Flight To Hyderabad
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Fourteen passengers of an Indigo flight from Goa to Hyderabad have accused the airline of바카라 웹사이트taking off ahead of schedule and바카라 웹사이트leaving them behind at Goa airport.

The passengers have alleged that바카라 웹사이트 Flight 6E 259 was scheduled바카라 웹사이트to depart at바카라 웹사이트10.50pm바카라 웹사이트on Monday, but left 25 minutes바카라 웹사이트ahead of바카라 웹사이트schedule.바카라 웹사이트 Its scheduled time of arrival at Hyderabad airport was 12.05am, but it had already landed at the destination at 11.40pm, said the Times of India

While the passengers have alleged that the flight departed earlier than its scheduled time, a spokesperson has rubbished the allegations saying the passengers were reminded through multiple바카라 웹사이트announcements, reported바카라 웹사이트TOI.

One of the Indigo spokespersons said the passengers were declared "gate no-show".

"The boarding gate closed at바카라 웹사이트10:25pm바카라 웹사이트and they reached the gate at바카라 웹사이트10.33pm.바카라 웹사이트IndiGo staff looked for them at the airport while making frantic announcements over바카라 웹사이트hand-held loudspeaker," said the airline.

The spokesperson also claimed that they (staff) had called them on the phone number provided by the passengers, but it turned out to be that of their travel agent, Thomas Cook, who didn't provide the phone numbers of the passengers but said that they will be informed.

"Despite no fault on our part, we shifted them to the next morning flight free of charge," the airline said to the newspaper.

A few days바카라 웹사이트ago, in a major security goof, a person was allowed to travel to Nagpur on an IndiGo flight from Delhi though he had a boarding pass for the airline's flight to Indore.

IndiGo confirmed the incident, which took place바카라 웹사이트on Friday, and said that it suspended three of its security personnel for the security lapse.

"The passenger was scheduled to travel to Indore on IndiGo airline's flight 6E 656. At the time of check-in, he was given a boarding pass for the same flight. However, he boarded the aircraft which was bound for Nagpur and no one from the airline noticed this goof," a source said.

The airline in a statement said, "IndiGo regrets the security breach intercepted by its security staff on flight 6E 774 (DEL-NAG), wherein a passenger of flight 6E 656 (DEL-IDR) wrongly boarded the flight 6E 774 and further travelled to Nagpur, after boarding the wrong coach."

Last year, the apex aviation security agency Bureau of Civil Aviation (BCAS) had suspended IndiGo's security training centre licence for lapses in the examination system conducted by it as the same set of question papers was found to have been repeated for many months.

The suspension order was, however, later revoked after the Gurgaon-based airline gave a commitment to the BCAS that its cabin crew will undergo a refresher course and examination once again.바카라 웹사이트

(With PTI inputs)

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