Thread: Air india passengers marooned at Gatwick

Yet another reason if one was needed not to fly with these buggers.

You would have thought they could manage to schedule a flight crew with enough hours left of cope with a delay at heathrow. And given they presumably had a crew available to fly the thing back to bombay.... how come it takes them 8 hours to get to gatwick.... got lost?

Why not just let the passengers off at Gatwick and put them on a bus?

Eek. 17 hours on a plane full of Indians.

^Bet that's a sweet smelling aircraft.

I fly with an Indian based airline,if anything goes wrong your on your own.
The staff just disappear,and let the police solve the problem.

Could be worse - at least most of the gap yahhh types who've spent 6 months in indiahhh sharing a single hose pipe with 2000 village peasants are safely at uni by now.

Surely Air India could sort some buses. 8-10 coaches would move them all. The weight saving for fuel costs off an empty take off from Gatwick to LHR would offset a chunk of the cost too.

I expect they did the bean counting and worked out the various charges for offloading passengers and hiring buses would have cost them as much as ten pounds extra.