Air Arabia's India flight delayed for 12 hours

Passengers of an Air Arabia flight from Jaipur to Sharjah were reportedly left stranded for hours yesterday following a delay of more than 12 hours due to a technical snag.

The airline, when contacted by 'Emirates24|7', said it cannot plan for unexpected delays and clarified that passengers were given all assistance following a 12-hour delay. The clarification was made following reports that passengers and relatives of Air Arabia flight G90434 created a ruckus at the Jaipur airport after the early morning flight failed to take off on time.

A senior spokesperson of the Sharjah-based budget carrier told this website that the delay was caused due to a technical snag. The 3.50am flight with 157 passengers finally departed at around 4pm, the official added.

According to Indian media reports, passengers and their relatives who had arrived at the airport almost two to three hours before the scheduled departure surrounded airline staff after no information was made available about the extent of the delay.

Some of them even accused the staff of not providing food or water or making alternate arrangements for accommodation following such a long delay. “All possible assistance was offered to the passengers. However we could not provide any hotel accommodation because we ourselves did not expect the delay to go on for so long. We were trying our best to rectify the problem at the earliest,” the spokesperson told this website.

A report in 'Daily Bhaskar' newspaper said that while many passengers from Jaipur and the adjoining areas returned to their homes only to come back in the afternoon, others stayed on at the airport.

“Some even spent the early morning outside the Terminal One building in the chill,” the report said.

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