New Delhi, December 29: Despite difficult weather conditions, Air India today managed to fly back two of its three aircraft that had been stuck in the US since Sunday, helped by passengers’ readiness to travel without baggage due to problem in ground-handling due to heavy snow at airports there.
The operation of the ‘passengers only’ flight was made possible as air travellers agreed to collect their baggage a couple of days after their journey, an Air India statement said here.
The conditions at JFK airport in New York were extremely difficult for ground handling activities as snow has covered all the equipment and large portions of the runway and tarmac.
The airport was also facing acute manpower scarcity as employees had not reported for work due to difficult conditions caused by snow blizzard in the US East Coast.
–Agencies