The Abu Dhabi-bound BG 027 flight, which was to take off at 9:30pm on Thursday, finally left for its destination at 11:45am yesterday, immigration sources said.

The passengers awaiting their departure, especially women and children, suffered terribly during the long stay at the airport. The Biman authorities did not make any arrangements for their food and other necessities, the passengers claimed.

The Biman authorities re-scheduled the departure time of the flight twice but could not keep those.

"We are here for more than 35 hours," an aggrieved passenger told the reporters adding "No high officials came as yet and talked to us about our sufferings."

"We do not even know when our miseries would end as we are yet to know when the flight will leave for Abu Dhabi," he said. "We could not sleep and toilet is also a big problem," he further said.

Another passenger said, "We fly by Biman thinking that the state-owned airline would make a profit," adding "No foreign airlines make these sorts of delays like the Biman does."

No Biman high officials were available for comments about the sufferings of the passengers and the delayed flight.