Sources said they went to wildcat demonstration following cancellation of their flight schedule of Jeddah-bound BG-037 by Biman authorities to make way for some Hajj pilgrims on the flight.

Unable to catch the flight scheduled at around 1:45am yesterday, they became furious at the Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport, went to the Biman office at around 8:00am and ransacked different rooms including that of manager.

A team of Panchlaish Police Station rushed to the spot and managed to calm them down.

Sources said the incident occurred due to overbooking of passengers, mainly pilgrims from both Chittagong and Dhaka, in the flight that has 274-seat capacity.

Admitting the fault, Biman District Manager JC Barua said about 66 Jeddah-bound passengers couldn't avail of their schedule flight due to overbooking.

"We were instructed by higher authorities not to hamper flight schedules of the pilgrims at any cost. This might have caused the overflow and five to 10 percent overflow or overbooking is quite a normal incident," he told this correspondent yesterday evening adding that alternative flight arrangements for the 66 passengers were already made.