Kerala Woman Misses Last Meeting With Dying Husband Due To Air India Strike, Stages Protest

The man's body was repatriated to Kerala on Thursday morning and soon his relatives staged a protest with the corpse at Air India SATS (AISATS) office in Thiruvananthapuram.

On May 13, Amrita's husband passed away without responding to treatment after experiencing a severe heart attack in Muscat.

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The family of a 25-year-old woman, unable to meet her husband before his passing in an Oman hospital due to the recent flash strike by Air India Express crew, staged a protest with the deceased's body outside the AISATS office in the capital of Kerala on Thursday. The man's body was repatriated to Kerala on Thursday morning and his relatives proceeded directly to the Air India SATS (AISATS) office in Thiruvananthapuram with the corpse.

Amrita, a nursing student from Karamana, had scheduled tickets for May 8 to visit her husband in Muscat. However, upon arriving at the airport, she was informed that the flight had been cancelled due to the strike. Despite her protest at the airport, Air India Express provided her with a ticket for the same airline on May 9.

Unfortunately, this ticket was also cancelled due to the strike forcing her to completely abandon her travel plans.

The woman's father accused the airline of being indifferent alleging that he lost his son-in-law due to their negligence. Subsequently, he proceeded to sit inside the main doors of the airline office declaring that he would not move from there until Air India Express addressed the situation and made a decision regarding the incident.

"Let the last rites and rituals be held, but I will not leave here till they make a decision. This should not happen to anyone else in the future. They have to take care of my grandkids and my daughter. They need to compensate us for the loss. Till they take a decision on that, I will not go from here," he said, as per a report on PTI.

Last week, Air India Express cancelled "scores of flights" due to a shortage of cabin crew members after a section of the crew reported sick to protest against alleged mismanagement at the Tata Group-owned airline.

On May 13, Amrita's husband passed away without responding to treatment after experiencing a severe heart attack in Muscat.