Technical issues hit Alliance Air airplane: Hyderabad–Tirupati flight cancelled; airline cites repeated glitches | India News

NEW DELHI: Alliance Air on Sunday mentioned it has cancelled its Hyderabad–Tirupati flight from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad after the plane developed repeated technical issues.The airline mentioned the flight first returned to the bay for obligatory engineering checks following a glitch and was later cleared for operations. However, it encountered one other snag that required longer-than-expected rectification, resulting in the cancellation.“Due to a technical glitch, the flight initially returned to the bay for mandatory engineering checks and was subsequently cleared to operate from Hyderabad to Tirupati. However, the aircraft again developed another snag for which rectification took a little longer than expected. Due to this and in order to avoid further disruption of flights, this sector had to be cancelled,” an Alliance Air spokesperson mentioned in a press release.The airline didn’t disclose the variety of passengers affected however mentioned the cancellation was obligatory to forestall wider disruption to its schedule.