TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Germany’s flag carrier Lufthansa Airlines has cancelled 800 flights globally due to a one-day pilots’ strike, resulting in around 700 passengers being stranded in T3 terminal at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA). Stranded passengers and their relatives registered strong protests on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday at Delhi airport.
“Information was received at IGI Airport at 12.15 am in which it was conveyed that a crowd had gathered on the main road in front of departure gate no. 1 of Terminal 3 IGI Airport. On reaching the spot it was found that approximately 150 persons were present there and because of this, the traffic movement had slowed down. The crowd was demanding a refund or alternate arrangements to be made for their relatives who were present inside the terminal building,” the airport police said.
Lufthansa operates two flights from Delhi to Frankfurt and Munich, which were cancelled on Friday. “On enquiry, it was found that two flights of Lufthansa Airlines were cancelled. LH 761 (Delhi to Frankfurt) having 300 passengers and scheduled departure at 2.50 am and another Lufthansa flight, LH 763 (Delhi to Munich) having 400 passengers and scheduled departure at 1.10 am were cancelled,” said an official.
