
Peeing Incident: DGCA imposes ₹30 lakh fine on Air India
The airline only imposed a ban of one month on Mishra, but later extended it to four months on January 19 following the decision by an internal committee to extend the ban.
The airline only imposed a ban of one month on Mishra, but later extended it to four months on January 19 following the decision by an internal committee to extend the ban.
The incident took place on Flight G8 116, which was scheduled to go from Bengaluru to Delhi at 6:30 am on Monday.
On November 26, a 34-year-old man, in an inebriated condition, urinated on a 70-year-old female co-passenger and her seat in the business class of a New York-Delhi Tata Group-owned Air India flight.
Air traffic was lower than pre-Covid-19 levels of September 2019.
The SpiceJet flight SG 3735, which was en route to Goa, made an emergency landing at around 11 pm last night.
Jet Airways completed two sets of proving flights on Sunday last week and Tuesday in a bid to secure the air operator's certificate from the aviation regulator.
Calling the incident "unfortunate", IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta says the staff made the best possible decision.
Aviation regulator DGCA removed the clause that granted preferential status to the now-privatised Air India in bilateral international traffic rights.
As India's air traffic slowly stabilises, a look at the different airlines' fleet and aircraft utilisation presents a very real picture of the ground reality.