Chennai: Over 100 Kuala Lumpur-bound passengers were stranded at the airport here for over four hours due to a delay in the arrival of the Air Asia flight from Malaysia, airport sources said on Saturday.
The flight was to have left at around 8 15 AM on Saturday, but there was a delay in its arrival, they said.
The 128 passengers who reached the airport around 5 am were informed the flight would take off around 11.15 hrs, but no announcements were made on when the aircraft would leave, the sources said.
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