SpiceJet flyers walk on Delhi airport's tarmac after waiting for bus for 45 min

A significant number of passengers who disembarked from SpiceJets HyderabadDelhi flight on Saturday night walked on the airports tarmac as the airline could not provide a bus for around 45 minutes to take them to the terminal sources saidAviation regulator DGCA is investigating the incident sources told PTI on SundaySpicejet however said there was a brief delay in the arrival of coaches and once the buses came all the passengers including those who had started walking travelled on them from the tarmac to the terminal buildingDespite repeated requests from our staff a few passengers started walking towards the terminal They had barely walked a few metres when the coaches arrived All passengers including those who had started walking travelled on the coaches to the terminal building Passengers are not allowed to walk on the Delhi airports tarmac area as it is a security risk There is a demarcated path on the tarmac for vehicles onlyTherefore the airlines use buses to take passengers from terminal to aircraft or vice versa using the demarcated pathCurrently SpiceJet is operating not more than 50 per cent of its flights as per the orders of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCAThe regulator had in July imposed the curb on the airlines flights for a period of eight weeks as its planes were involved in at least eight incidents of technical malfunction in the June 19July 5 periodSpiceJets HyderabadDelhi flight which had 186 passengers on board landed at its destination at around 1124 PM on Saturday sources saidOne bus came immediately and took a section of the passengers to the terminal 3 they saidThe rest of the passengers waited for about 45 minutes and as they didnt see any bus coming for them they started walking towards the terminal which was about 15 km away they notedAfter these passengers walked for around 11 minutes on tarmac a bus came at around 1220 PM to take them to the terminal they said When asked about this incident SpiceJet said in a statement The information that passengers of SpiceJet flight HyderabadDelhi on 6th August were forced to walk towards the terminal on foot is wrong and is deniedThere was a brief delay in the arrival of coaches to ferry the passengers from the tarmac to the terminal building Despite repeated requests from our staff a few passengers started walking towards the terminal They had barely walked a few metres when the coaches arrived All passengers including those who had started walking travelled on the coaches to the terminal building the airline mentionedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever