A number of Indian passengers of a Manchester-bound Gulf Air flight have been stranded on the Kuwait airport for practically 20 hours and have been flown out of the town to their vacation spot on Monday morning.
The Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Manchester was diverted to Kuwait on account of a technical glitch.
Gulf Air GF5 took off from Bahrain at 2.05 am native time on December 1 however a snag compelled the aircraft to land in Kuwait at 4:01 am, as per studies.
With a number of passengers complaining that that they had been stranded on the airport for a lot of hours, the Indian embassy in Kuwait took up the matter with Gulf Air, in response to social media posts.
In a sequence of posts on X, the embassy mentioned its crew reached the airport to help the passengers and coordinate with the airline. Passengers have been accommodated in two airport lounges.
Meals and water have been made out there for the stranded passengers on the lounges, as per the embassy.
“Gulf Air flight to Manchester lastly departed at 0434 hours right this moment carrying stranded Indian passengers amongst others. The embassy crew was on the bottom until the flight departed,” the embassy mentioned in a put up.
A stranded passenger, on Sunday, took to X, alleging that Indian passengers have been left with out assist.
