Over 100 flights cancelled at 4 major Gujarat airports; stranded passengers fly off the handle

Ahmedabad, Dec 5 (PTI) Frustration and anger were writ large on faces of stranded passengers as private carrier IndiGo cancelled over 100 flights scheduled for arrival and departure at four main airports in Gujarat - Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot - on Friday.

As the crisis at India's largest airline extended to the third day, chaos prevailed at airports with harried passengers venting their ire at the IndiGo management and indulging in slogan shouting.

As many as 86 6E IndiGo flights scheduled for arrival and departure from the Ahmedabad airport (50 departure and 36 arrival) were cancelled between 0001 IST and till 1600 IST on December 5, an airport official said.

He informed that nine flights of the airline scheduled for departure from Vadodara, eight from Rajkot and four from