A tense situation prevailed among passengers at the Chennai airport on Thursday after IndiGo Airlines cancelled several of their flights, delaying the departure of other airlines.
Of the over 100 IndiGo flights cancelled across the country, 26 were set to depart from the Chennai airport to various destinations, including Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Patna, the Andaman Islands, Delhi, Coimbatore, Shirdi, and Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Similarly, five flights scheduled to arrive from Mumbai, Andaman, Indore, Jaipur, and Kochi were cancelled.
Those arriving on connecting IndiGo flights also faced the problem.
Hundreds of passengers argued with the security staff at the domestic terminal, and raised slogans calling out the inaction of the private airline and the officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
