Passengers suffer as Air Asia flight delayed for 24hrs
Around 144 passengers of Air Asia had to suffer an around 24-hour delay due to a technical glitch yesterday, sources at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport said.
Among 144 passengers, there were several Bangladeshi migrant workers who were scheduled to go to Brunei through a connecting flight.
Due to delay, the workers and several other passengers failed to reach their destinations in Malaysia and Brunei, Kamrun Nahar, a passenger, told The Daily Star.
The Malaysia-based budget airlines Air Asia flight AK-70 was scheduled to take off from HSIA for Malaysia around 12:30am yesterday.
The aircraft -- Airbus 320 -- was kept waiting for long after the authorities completed all formalities and got the passengers on board the aircraft.
The cabin crew first blamed the airport authorities for the delay but after around an hour, the pilot requested the passengers to disembark.
The airlines authorities later arranged accommodation for the passengers at different nearby hotels.
Kamrun Nahar said she was scheduled to attend an international seminar in Malaysia, but missed it due to the long delay.
As per the rescheduled time, the flight was likely to take off at around 12:35am today, sources at the airport said.
Air Asia started operating flights from Dhaka in 2015. It operates seven flights in a week on the Dhaka-Malaysia route.
Officials of Air Asia at the HSIA were not available for comments.
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