Nor'wester forces diversion of 8 Kolkata-bound flights to BPIA
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Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: Several passengers headed to Kolkata on Saturday night were stranded at
Bhubaneswar airport
from late Saturday evening to early Sunday morning, following the diversion of eight
Kolkata-bound flights
during a nor'wester.
The strong crosswinds made landing and take-off hazardous, forcing arriving flights to either hover over Kolkata or divert to other airports and departing flights to stay on hold. On late Saturday night and early Sunday, eight arriving flights had to be diverted to Bhubaneswar's
Biju Patnaik International Airport
. The diverted flights were from Delhi, Jaipur, Srinagar, Chennai and Guwahati. While some flights managed to return to Kolkata post-midnight, around 1.30 am, others were delayed much longer, with the last arrivals touching down as late as 7.40 am on Sunday.
Stuck at Bhubaneswar airport overnight, a section of passengers demonstrated at the entrance of the facility, alleging that they were left stranded for hours. The passengers were irked over 'non-availability' of food and water services at BPIA. Even after the weather conditions improved, the passengers faced delay in reaching their destination.
"I boarded a Spice Jet flight from Delhi to Kolkata at 9.50 pm on Saturday. At 12 am, the flight operator sent a message informing that flight will make a landing at Bhubaneswar airport. We landed at 12.30 am at Bhubaneswar. However, we had to sit inside the flight for two hours. At 1.30 am, the Bhubaneswar airport authorities assured us to provide accommodation and flight services here. Around 300 passengers were stranded here, but we received nothing from the operator nor from the airport authorities," one of the passengers said in an X post.
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BPIa director Prasanna Pradhan said that while six flights returned at night after the weather improved, two SpiceJet flights returned on Sunday morning. "The diverted flights landed safely. There was no safety issue," Pradhan said.
Airport officials said the passengers of two flights operated by SpiceJet were halted in Bhubaneswar for long as the airlines does not operate at BPIA. "They had no engineers at night to certify the airworthiness of the aircraft. The airworthiness clearance was given in the morning," said an official.
Airlines sources said since there is no SpiceJet base in Bhubaneswar, they had to fly down crew from another place to clear the flight for travel.
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