Parents leave 11 years old abandoned in Goa airport with Rs 500

As per a report:

He dreamt of flying to Dubai but 11-year-old Sameer Bagoda's parents abandoned him at the airport here, gave him Rs.500 and told him to head back to his hometown of Satara in neighbouring Maharashtra. Sameer was found abandoned at Goa's only international airport at Dabolim, 40 km from capital Panaji, sobbing and anxious to see his parents again, earlier this week. Read full story here at.......Parents leave 11 years old abandoned in Goa airport with Rs 500

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Stray dog delays landing of largest plane Airbus A380 at IGI Terminal-3

Airbus A-380 of Emirates Airlines on Thursday landed at the new Terminal-3 of the IGI airport here, proving its capacity to handle commercial operations of the world's largest aircraft.
However, the occasion was marred by the straying of a dog in the apron area of the terminal, delaying the docking of the super-jumbo plane with the aerobridge by half an hour.
The dog was chased away by airport officials just before the aircraft reached the designated aerobridge. Read More................Dog mars largest plane's T3 landing

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Naked man enters Delhi airport, detained

New Delhi: Police at Delhi airport detained a naked man who was spotted near the runway Friday evening. According to police sources, the man, identified as Arun Rai, jumped the periphery wall of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) and started moving towards a taxiway, near runway 29. Read More................Naked man enters Delhi airport, detained

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Preity Zinta jumps off toilet wall at Delhi airport

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta pulled off a stunt by jumping off the wall of a toilet at the Delhi airport after she got stuck inside for more than 10 minutes.Read More................Preity Zinta jumps off toilet wall at Delhi airport

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Couple fights at airport for 6 hours

KOLKATA: A six-hour drama unfolded at Kolkata airport on Sunday afternoon as a married couple screamed, swore and scuffled in front of hundreds of onlookers. The woman ended up missing her flight, which led to more trouble with her in-laws.

The woman, a South African, had married an NRI from Kolkata in Cape Town recently. She arrived in the city on Sunday morning, her first trip to visit her in-laws. But within hours, a quarrel broke out and she decided to leave the city. Read More................Couple fights at airport for 6 hours

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Fear of flying? Divine help soon at Airport

New Delhi: For those suffering from aviophobia, the fear of flying, divine help will be at hand soon with a grand temple with south Indian architecture coming up just outside the airport here. Read More................Aviophobia? Divine help soon at Delhi airport

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Pig delays Flight

In Nagpur City in Maharashtra state of India, a major mishap was averted at Dr Ambedkar International Airport on Wednesday as the landing of a Mumbai-Nagpur Jet airways flight was aborted after a pig strayed onto the runway. Read more at TOI......................Pig strays onto runway, delays flight

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38 Overweight Airhostesses grounded

state-run Air India has grounded 22 overweight airhostesses - 22 working for its domestic and 16 for international services respectively, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here Tuesday. Speaking in Parliament, the minister said cabin crews would be asked to reappear for weight check periodically and be assigned to flight duty once they confirmed to the prescribed weight limits. Read more................................................Air India grounds 38 overweight airhostesses

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Boy hides behind Plane's Wheel

It seems for this boy it was a game of hide & seek!!!!!

"While passengers face multilayered checks at IGI, one of the city's ultra-high-security zones, a minor boy found easy access into the airport by jumping over a wall. The boy, who the authorities suspect is mentally challenged, spent close to three hours at the airside (tarmac area) and was found between the wheels of an aircraft. He said he wanted to fly to Dubai." Read more...........................................At IGI, boy hides behind plane's wheel

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Monkey stalls operations at Airport

It was monkey business at New Delhi's international airport & wildlife officials were struggling to catch a monkey which sneaked inside the security area of the airport. Monkey stalled operations at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport for a few hours, delaying passengers and senior officials, media reports and officials said Monday.

The trouble began after the simian was spotted by passengers at the airport's security hold area on Sunday evening, the Economic Times reported quoting official sources.

Soon after, authorities closed two gates, generally used for movement of important people or VIPs and summoned a team from an NGO called Wildlife SOS to catch the unusual visitor.

The report said the monkey had triggered panic amongst passengers and the entry through the gates was denied to VIPs, officials and passengers for a couple of hours.

'The monkey had apparently been frequenting the airport for a few weeks now and has been found staying between the false and actual ceilings. But we have not been able to capture him since there is a huge tangle of wires there,' Karthik Satyanarayan from the Wildlife SOS told the paper.

Baiju Raj, another official at the Wildlife SOS said the operations were restored after a few hours but the monkey was still not captured as the NGO was awaiting permission from the authorities.

It was not the first time that passengers at the New Delhi airport were troubled by unwelcome intruders.

In March, a rat had delayed an international flight by more than three hours. In November last year, a rabid dog entered the airport and bit four people before it was captured in a three-hour chase.

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Stuck in transit: 48 days at New Delhi's airport

Whenever, you are a transit passenger on any airport, you are always eager to catch that next flight & reach your final destination. But what would you call to the story of two Bangladeshi men who have to stay, rather live at the New Delhi airport for 48 days as transit passengers to catch their final destination flight.

Two Bangladeshi men lived in New Delhi airport for 48 days as they did not have passports to return home in a reprise of a role played by Tom Hanks in the Hollywood film The Terminal, a newspaper said on Thursday.

The men were sent back to the Indian capital by Saudi Arabian authorities in March for arriving without proper papers on a Dhaka-Delhi-Riyadh Air India flight, the Times of India newspaper reported.

Saudi Arabia keeps passports of such visitors and sends them back with emergency travel certificates, the daily quoted an airline spokesman as saying.
But with Dhaka not allowing people without passports to enter the country, the men who had left their homes hoping for lucrative jobs in Saudi Arabia were stuck in the transit lounge of Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport.

"They got so bored here that they would often request the eatery staff to give them some work - not to earn money but to pass time," the paper quoted an airport official as saying.

Air India spent about $US2500 ($3030) to feed them and pay for their visits to hospitals for medical check-ups under police escort before the Bangladesh mission issued new passports last week and ended their ordeal, it said.
In the 2004 Steven Spielberg film, Tom Hanks plays a traveler from a fictional East European country stuck in New York's JFK airport terminal after his passport is revoked following a coup back home.

That film was inspired by the true story of an Iranian-born man who had until then lived in Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for 16 years.

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