Lucknow, Dec. 6 -- Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the Lucknow airport on Friday as 14 IndiGo flights to various destinations from the state capital were cancelled, resulting in chaotic scenes at the airline's counters.

The cancellations fuelled anger amid financial losses and missing baggage for the travellers who had planned their journeys months in advance.

More than 50 passengers arriving on an IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Lucknow at 5 a.m. - after enduring a 16-hour delay - discovered that their luggage was missing. Instead, bags belonging to passengers from a Mumbai-bound flight had mistakenly landed in Lucknow.

"We were not informed about the 16-hour delay, and then we found our luggage missing. This is harassment and...