Passengers protest at Bengaluru airport, as their flight ‘failed to land in Nepal for second day’

Chaos prevailed astatine Kempegowda International Airport successful Bengaluru aft passengers bound for Nepal person staged a protestation against a backstage airline, alleging gross mismanagement that disrupted their question plans for 2 consecutive days.

According to passengers, the formation departed Bengaluru for Kathmandu astatine 10.30 americium connected Thursday (February 26, 2026). However, the craft returned without landing successful Kathmandu nether circumstances that were not intelligibly communicated to travellers, they alleged.

The aforesaid craft reportedly took disconnected again connected Friday (February 27, 2026) morning, but erstwhile again failed to onshore successful Kathmandu and was diverted to Lucknow. Passengers alleged that they were made to stay seated wrong the craft for respective hours aft landing successful Lucknow.

"We were kept wrong the level for hours without due information. No 1 intelligibly explained what was happening," a rider said during their protestation connected Friday (February 27, 2026).

After prolonged waiting and exhaustion, travellers staged a protestation wrong the aircraft, forcing the hose to alert them backmost to Bengaluru.

Upon arrival, respective passengers sat successful protestation adjacent the migration country astatine the airport, expressing choler implicit what they described arsenic a discarded of 2 days of their time.

Protesters claimed they were confined wrong the craft for much than 30 hours successful full and accused the hose of mediocre coordination and communication. "Our full Nepal travel has been ruined. We planned this good successful beforehand and suffered fiscal losses," different rider said.

Personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) intervened and attempted to pacify the agitating passengers.

However, galore continued their sit-in protestation demanding accountability and compensation from the airline.

More than 40 Kannada-speaking travellers were among those connected board, who said their long-planned Nepal travel was disrupted owed to the airline's alleged nonaccomplishment to negociate the concern effectively.

There was nary contiguous absorption from the airline.