hyderabad as another flight set to take off on friday united states citizens stuck in hyderabad were getting lastminute confirmations till late thursday evening some of them who have been holed up in a city hotel were on tenterhooks about their confirmation of getting on to the flight one of the fortunate few who got an early confirmation was murali krishna devarakonda who came to the city for workvacation on march 5 explaining his flight schedule he said we are set to travel from hyderabad to mumbai at 415pm and at 10pm from mumbai to atlanta from there i have booked another flight to reach san jose which will arrive at 1130am pst devarakonda moved into a hotel located in banjara hills on monday where consular staff were meeting us citizens to process them and keep them posted about their travel time unlike devarakonda some others got confirmations till late thursday one passenger speaking on the condition of anonymity said consular officials were being overcautious and reconfirming travel plans repeatedly with some passengers having travelled to be with his father who suffered a brain clot on march 7 the passenger said he was stuck with two toddlers in another district i had to use a police travel pass to get here with the two kids working at nights has become close to impossible he saiddescribing his situation the passenger said i have been staying at the hotel for the past one week and got a final confirmation on thursday afternoon several passengers who were sent mails on sunday about being top priority had to wait till thursday to get final conformation letters consular officials have been working roundtheclock to get people on board repatriation flightsas many as 99 united states citizens including 98 adults and one infant who were stuck in hyderabad had left the city aboard a special air india flight to mumbai they were among the 200 us nationals who were flown back to the united states from mumbai late on tuesday night