On-board political protest: IndiGo puts LDF convenor on no fly list for 3 weeks and bars 2 Cong workers for 2 weeks | India News
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NEW DELHI: IndiGo has put a senior leader of Kerala’s ruling LDF convener E P Jayarajan on the no fly list for three weeks for the allegedly unruly act of pushing two Youth Congress workers who were protesting again the state’s CM on a June 13, 2022, Kannur-Trivandrum flight.
The two Congress worker have been put on the airline’s no fly list for two weeks. The decision was taken following an inquiry into the episode by an airline panel under the supervision of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The June 13 episode was possibly India’s first inflight political demonstration when the two were sloganeering after the flight had landed in Trivandrum and was taxiing to the terminal. It is also the first time a politician and/or political workers have been put on that list by an Indian airline barring them from flying both the domestic and international flights across its network. It is upto other individual Indian airlines to follow suit.
So far, Covid norm violators — including passengers and scribes covering an actress’ visit to Mumbai some months back — have been barred from flying for saying periods of time. A Mumbai jeweller had become the first person to be put on this list in May 2018 for creating a hijack scare on an erstwhile Jet Airways’ flight in 2017. His act of leaving a hijack message in the business class lavatory of a Mumbai-Delhi flight on October 30, 2017, that forced the plane to divert to Ahmedabad had led Jet banning him from flying its planes for five years.
India had put in place the no fly list rules for unruly flyers in September 2017, months after an MP had threatened to beat up an Air India staffer inside an aircraft with his slippers. That episode had taken place in March 2017. In a first for any Indian carrier then, AI had decided not to allow this MP on its flights — this at a time when India did not have the concept of a no fly list and also filed a police complaint against the MP. Later other airlines also decided they will it fly Gaikwad. The ban on flying the MP lasted a few weeks before it was lifted.
Meanwhile on June 13, 2022, IndiGo’s Kannur-Trivandrum service (6E 7407) with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan onboard had witnessed sloganeering by two Congress workers. Two Youth Congress workers had raised slogans against CM Vijayan, seeking his resignation, after the flight had landed in Trivandrum around 5 pm. Jayarajan, who was accompanying the CM, had allegedly pushed the two away. IndiGo investigated this under the provisions of the rules for unruly flyers. IndiGo had then said it was “considering to take appropriate steps in accordance with the applicable regulations, subject to an internal fact finding process.”
The two Congress worker have been put on the airline’s no fly list for two weeks. The decision was taken following an inquiry into the episode by an airline panel under the supervision of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The June 13 episode was possibly India’s first inflight political demonstration when the two were sloganeering after the flight had landed in Trivandrum and was taxiing to the terminal. It is also the first time a politician and/or political workers have been put on that list by an Indian airline barring them from flying both the domestic and international flights across its network. It is upto other individual Indian airlines to follow suit.
So far, Covid norm violators — including passengers and scribes covering an actress’ visit to Mumbai some months back — have been barred from flying for saying periods of time. A Mumbai jeweller had become the first person to be put on this list in May 2018 for creating a hijack scare on an erstwhile Jet Airways’ flight in 2017. His act of leaving a hijack message in the business class lavatory of a Mumbai-Delhi flight on October 30, 2017, that forced the plane to divert to Ahmedabad had led Jet banning him from flying its planes for five years.
India had put in place the no fly list rules for unruly flyers in September 2017, months after an MP had threatened to beat up an Air India staffer inside an aircraft with his slippers. That episode had taken place in March 2017. In a first for any Indian carrier then, AI had decided not to allow this MP on its flights — this at a time when India did not have the concept of a no fly list and also filed a police complaint against the MP. Later other airlines also decided they will it fly Gaikwad. The ban on flying the MP lasted a few weeks before it was lifted.
Meanwhile on June 13, 2022, IndiGo’s Kannur-Trivandrum service (6E 7407) with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan onboard had witnessed sloganeering by two Congress workers. Two Youth Congress workers had raised slogans against CM Vijayan, seeking his resignation, after the flight had landed in Trivandrum around 5 pm. Jayarajan, who was accompanying the CM, had allegedly pushed the two away. IndiGo investigated this under the provisions of the rules for unruly flyers. IndiGo had then said it was “considering to take appropriate steps in accordance with the applicable regulations, subject to an internal fact finding process.”
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