Dammam-Mangaluru Air India Express flight once again delayed at Dammam Airport
Passengers made to wait for seven hour
Dammam: Mangaluru bound Air India Express flight that was scheduled to take off from Dammam International Airport at 10.10 pm on Monday night was once again delayed. This the flight was delayed for about seven hours, passengers of the flight told Vartha Bharati.
According to the passengers the flight carrier Air India Express sent Emails to them at 9.30 pm informing them about the delay in flights causing inconvenience to about 200 passengers who were by then had already reached airport.
The passengers further alleged that women, children, senior citizen and patients were made to wait at the airport without adequate arrangements of food and accommodation for more than seven hours. The passengers further added that the Air India Express officials did not respond to their queries about the delay.
People from Coastal Karnataka and neighboring state Kerala prefer taking flight from Dammam to Mangaluru International Airport as it has direct flight between the two airports.
In a similar incident earlier this month, the same flight was delayed for more than two and an half hour before taking off. The passengers then were made to wait inside the flight with food and water supplies, the passengers had alleged.
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Iran war 'close to over,' says Trump
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Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump has said that the war with Iran is “close to over,” asserting that if he pulled up stakes right now, it would take Tehran 20 years to rebuild the country.
The president's comments come hours after the US Central Command said it has successfully blocked all traffic to and from Iranian ports and coastal areas in the first 24 hours of Trump's blockade, saying the US was supporting freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
“I think it’s close to over, yeah. I view it as very close to being over,” Trump told Fox News in an interview that will be telecast later Wednesday.
The interview for the programme “Mornings with Maria” was recorded on Tuesday.
“I think it’s — I had to divert because if I didn’t do that, right now you’d have Iran with a nuclear weapon. And if they had a nuclear weapon, you’d be calling everyone over there ‘sir,’ and you don’t want to do that,” Trump said.
The US and Iran failed to reach an agreement following historic marathon talks in Islamabad over the weekend to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict that started on February 28.
A US media report said on Tuesday that Trump said that a second round of talks with Iran could be held in Islamabad “over the next two days.”
“You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we're more inclined to go there,” Trump told The New York Post.
Trump attributed the possibility of a second round of talks to the “great job” done by Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.
“It's more likely, you know why? Because the field marshal is doing a great job,” the US President said.
He did not say whether Vice President J D Vance would continue to lead the negotiating team, which included White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
“I’ve been saying they can’t have nuclear weapons. So I don’t like the 20 years,” Trump said when asked about suggestions that a moratorium might encourage Iran to make an agreement.
“I don’t want them (Iran) to feel like they have a win,” the US President said.
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