An Indigo Airlines flight took off from Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport without 18 passengers. When the passengers reached the airport, there was a ruckus. They panicked because the flight had already left before they arrived. They expressed their anger by accusing Indigo Airlines of negligence. The ruckus of the passengers continued at the airport for a long time.
The 18 passengers without whom the plane departed were travelling from Dehradun to Varanasi. They had a connecting flight in Lucknow. All of them had left for Varanasi from Lucknow by an Indigo Airlines flight, but the flight from Lucknow to Varanasi took off before they could reach. The flight by which these passengers came from Dehradun was late.
18 passengers had taken a flight from Uttarakhand's capital Dehradun to Varanasi. There was no direct flight from Dehradun to Varanasi, they had to take a connecting flight from Lucknow. The plane took off from Dehradun to Lucknow with all the passengers. Here an Indigo Airlines flight from Lucknow to Varanasi was ready to take off at its scheduled time. On the other hand, the flight coming from Dehradun was delayed by about one and a half hours.
The flight from Dehradun to Lucknow was late, so the connecting flight was diverted from Lucknow to Varanasi without any wait. When these passengers reached Lucknow airport at around 7 pm, they came to know that the flight by which they were to go to Varanasi had already taken off. They got angry at this. The passengers started creating a ruckus at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport itself. They say that first their flight from Dehradun was late, then their connecting flight from Lucknow left before their arrival. The airlines convinced these passengers and sent them to Varanasi by road.