After being stranded at the Kuwait airport for nearly 20 hours, Indian passengers of a Bahrain to Manchester flight were flown out to their destination on Monday.
As per reports, Gulf Air GF5 took off from Bahrain at 2.05 am local time on December 1 but a technical glitch forced the flight to land in Kuwait at 4:01 am.
The Indian embassy in Kuwait took up the matter with Gulf Air after several passengers complained that they had been stranded at the airport for many hours.
In a series of posts on X, the embassy said its team had reached the airport to help the passengers and coordinate with the airline. Passengers were accommodated in two airport lounges.
The embassy said that the passengers were provided with food and water at the lounges.
"Gulf Air flight to Manchester finally departed at 0434 hours today carrying stranded Indian passengers among others. The embassy team was on the ground till the flight departed," the embassy said in a post.
A stranded passenger, on Sunday, took to X, alleging that Indian passengers were left without help.
Arzoo Singh, a passenger, said they asked for lounge access at least, but the airport authorities did not get back.
"They said 'if you're entitled passport holders, and Indians and Pakistanis are not entitled passport holders', they literally told us if you're entitled for a transit visa, only then we can put you in a hotel outside," she said said.
"We asked them what about us, people who are not 'entitled' as you say? They said we will get back to you. We ran behind them for nearly two hours, only after that we got lounge access. We asked for blankets, we asked for food. They didn't give. No one even gave us water for the first four hours," she added.
She said there were some 60 passengers, but there was no confirmation on the number from the airline.
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