Flights to Goa, Hyderabad, Mumbai cancelled

Vadodara: Travel plans of hundreds of passengers went haywire on Friday after IndiGo flights from the city to Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai were cancelled.

Flights on the Vadodara-Goa-Vadodara and Vadodara-Hyderabad routes were cancelled on Friday due to a technical problem with an aircraft.

Sources said after its arrival from Hyderabad, the aircraft was to fly on the Vadodara-Goa-Vadodara sector and then the Vadodara-Hyderabad sector.

The aircraft experienced a technical snag while taxiing out. "Considering the safety of the aircraft and passengers, the pilot decided to return to the bay," an official said.

"Attempts were made to rectify the issue but there were no immediate results," the official added


Passengers from these flights were accommodated on other flights according to IndiGo's policy, the official said. Sources added that a technical team from Mumbai was to arrive on Friday night to address the issue.

Early on Friday morning, an IndiGo flight from Mumbai was cancelled, the second flight from Mumbai cancelled in two days. IndiGo's morning flight (6E 5126), which usually departs from Mumbai at 6.20am and reaches Vadodara at around 7.20am, was cancelled due to "operational reasons", as was its return leg.

On Thursday, IndiGo's evening flight from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai (Flight 6E 2168), which usually departs at 6.55pm and lands in Vadodara around 8.05pm, was also cancelled due to operational reasons.

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