Thursday, 24 March 2016

Jet Airways flies stranded passengers to Mumbai

NEW DELHI, March 25, 2016, DHNS:
The airline started pulling out its planes grounded in the Belgian airport following the terror attack. The airline shifted its passengers to Amsterdam using its two flights that were stranded in Brussels Airport.  Reuters file photo
Jet Airways on Thursday flew a group of passengers stranded in Brussels from Amsterdam to Mumbai.

The airline started pulling out its planes grounded in the Belgian airport following the terror attack. The airline shifted its passengers to Amsterdam using its two flights that were stranded in Brussels Airport. 

On Thursday late evening, its Amsterdam-Mumbai flight (9W 1227) took off from capital of Netherlands for the Western Indian metropolis. 

The airline also plans to operate two other flights from Amsterdam to Delhi and Toronto in Canada Earlier on Thursday, the airline had announced that it would operate three recovery flights to fly the stranded passengers. “Jet Airways has started the process of flying its aircraft out of Brussels as part of the recovery operations. The first aircraft landed in Amsterdam at 12:00 hours (local time) from Brussels as a ferry flight,” a Jet Airways spokesperson said.

Four Jet Airways planes were grounded at the Brussels airport after the authorities decided to shut the operations in the wake of the blasts. 

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