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on social media. The flight took off from Delhi after a delay of more than 10 hours, according to flight tracking website flightradar24.

And in more signs of air passengers at the absolute end of their tether, many people rushed out of an IndiGo aircraft at Mumbai airport, some sitting on the tarmac and eating food as their diverted Goa-Delhi flight landed after a long delay on Sunday.

As photographs and video clips were distributed on social media, aviation security watchdog BCAS issued show cause notices to IndiGo and Mumbai airport operator MIAL over the incident, official sources said on Tuesday.

The sources said the aircraft was allotted a remote bay C-33 instead of a Contact Stand, an aircraft parking stand that is suitable for walking passengers to and from an aircraft from an allocated boarding gate. This further added to passenger woes and deprived them the opportunity to avail basic facilities like rest rooms and refreshments at the terminal, they added.

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also held a meeting with all ministry officials to discuss the matter. In a statement on Monday, he had said the government is taking a slew of steps to improve the situation and assured people that all stakeholders are “working round the clock to minimise the fog-related impact”.

“It is my earnest request to all travellers to bear with us during this difficult period,” he posted on X.

The stories were plenty.

An Air India flight from Calicut to Mumbai was delayed by more than 12 hours - from 6.50 pm on Sunday to 8.30 am on Monday.

“It was a nightmare. First, we were told our flight has been rescheduled to 9.55 pm and later around 10-10.30 pm, after asking the staff multiple times, they told us that it will now take-off tomorrow at 7.35 am.

“To top it all, we, who were made to wait at the airport since 4 pm, were told to leave the airport premises without giving any assurance about our accomodation for the night. We really have to put our foot down to get the accommodation, even then it was not provided to all,” passenger Anshika Verma told PTI.

Many vented their ire on X. Visuals of long queues at airports, some sitting or lying on the floor waiting to get updates on their flight status made the rounds of various social media platforms.

In a lengthy post on X on Monday, actor Ranvir Shorey called out IndiGo for an alleged 10 hour-delay, claiming the staff “lied” to him about the holdup citing bad weather issues. The 51-year-old actor, desperate to get to his child, did not name the airport.

“... Our flight took off at around midnight, 10 hours after the scheduled time of the flight! We will be filing a complaint for the trauma we have been doled out yesterday by @IndiGo6E in the name of air travel,” said the Mumbai-based actor.The “Khosla Ka Ghosla” actor alleged that the aircraft didn’t have a pilot assigned for the flight he and seven friends were travelling in.

Later, an IndiGo spokesperson said the team is “actively working” to address his concern.

Last week, actors Radhika Apte and Surbhi Chandna also shared their air travel ordeal on social media.

While Apte claimed she was among several passengers who were locked in an aerobridge for hours after their flight was delayed, Chandna slammed another air carrier for allegedly “offloading” her luggage and “mentally torturing” her.

“... Today morning I had a flight at 8:30. It’s 10:50 now and the flight has still not boarded. BUT the flight said we were boarding and put all the passengers in the aerobridge and LOCKED IT! The passengers with small babies, elderly people have been locked in for over an hour,” wrote Apte while sharing pictures of herself and the co-passengers squatting on the aerobridge.

Indigo and Air India issued statements following the severe backlash by their respective customers for their poor handling of flights.

While Air India said they are “working hard to restore schedules”, and sincerely regret the inconvenience” caused to its passengers, Indigo assured people that it has “sufficient CAT III qualified pilots” and argued that the number of diversion cases “represents a very small fraction” of the 2,000 daily flights operated by them.

“We are putting in every effort to minimize inconvenience to passengers in the event of flight disruption due to bad weather,” read the statement from IndiGo. situation and that everything should happen through them, but, I want to assure you that we will not allow that,” he said.

He appealed to the people, especially the youth, to participate in the Republic Day celebrations and keep the tricolour flying high.

“I urge you to take part in large numbers in the ‘Jhanda Ooncha Rahay Hamara’ programme. I want the skies of Baramulla to be filled with Tiranga,” he said.

At Baramulla, the LG joined the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, and called for collective efforts from all sections of the society to ensure that no beneficiary is left behind.

He also inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for development projects worth Rs 38 crore.

He said the impressive participation of the citizens during the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra across the UT is a reflection of the transformation that happened in J&K, under the leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, over the past few years.

“All the districts are witnessing accelerated growth and rural Jammu Kashmir has been transformed beyond imagination,” the LG said.”We have been able to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the people to a large extent. Today, the people of Jammu Kashmir have better quality life and equal economic opportunities to grow, he added.

He further said, “Our efforts towards the creation of new infrastructure, knowledge economy and achieving 100% saturation of schemes will ensure J&K realise its destiny.”

The LG inspected the stalls, put up various departments and handed over sanction letters to beneficiaries under different government schemes. He administered the ‘Hamara Sankalp Viksit Bharat’ pledge to officials and the citizens.

He also flagged off a fleet of Garbage Collection Vehicles for rural areas of the district.

The demonstration of sports activities and cultural performances received special appreciation from the Lt Governor.

The projects inaugurated by the LG today include Office Accommodation for Block Development Council Tangmarg; WSS Aglar; Retrofitting works of Water Supply Schemes at Sagipora Razakpora, Achabal Doabgah, Gund Dalwash, Gani Wani Manchkhud; Sub Stations and Improvement of LT/ HT Network in the District and Model School at Government Higher Secondary School Pattan.

The projects for which foundation stones were laid by the LG include Astro Turf for Football at Sheikh-ul-Alam Stadium; 8- Lane Synthetic Athletic track Surface at Tulibal Sopore; Installation of Blow Moulded Chairs for General Bipin Rawat Stadium; Spawn Production Laboratory in Public Sector under (HADP) for Mushroom Promotion in Baramulla and Laboratory Block at Government Higher Secondary School Authoora.

Safina Baig, Chairperson, District Development Council Baramulla; Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, GOC 15 Corps; Vidhi Kumar Birdi, IGP Kashmir; Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir; Sarmad Hafeez, Secretary Youth Services and Sports; Minga Sherpa, Deputy Commissioner Baramulla; senior officers of Security Forces, Civil and Police administration; former PRI members; youth and people in large numbers were present.