Inordinate delay by an Air Express flight bound for Doha from here put 160 passengers to severe hardship since last night.
Many of the passengers were migrant workers for whom it was important to reach the places of their work in time, the aggrieved passengers said.
The airline officials put "operational reasons" as the cause for the overnight delay in departure of flight AI 457, which was to have taken off at 8.45 pm last night.
The flight was expected to take off this afternoon, airline sources said.
The stranded passengers were accommodated in hotels.
But some of them complained that they were caught unawares by the delay and the airline officials did not give them any convincing reason for it or a firm answer to their question on the exact time when the flight would take off.
"A majority of passengers booked for the flight were migrant workers in the Gulf. They might even lose the job if they fail to get at their workplace in time", one passenger said.
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