New Delhi:
Air India has been fined Rs 10 lakh by the aviation regulator DGCA for failing to report an incident last month when a man allegedly urinated on a blanket on a woman’s empty seat on a Paris-Delhi flight.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, or DGCA, said the Tata-run airline was delayed in referring the December 6 incident to its internal committee.
This was the second incident in which a man urinated in the passenger seat on board an Air India flight, after another man allegedly urinated on a fellow female passenger on a New York-Delhi flight on Nov. 26.
Air India had not reported the incidents to the aviation regulator before they hit the media.
The DGCA was only made aware of the December 6 incident after requesting details from Air India.
Air India “did not report the incident until the DGCA requested the incident report from them on 05.01.2023,” the DGCA had said in a statement.
The airline’s response made it clear that it was not complying with “the provisions related to dealing with unruly passengers according to DGCA,” the statement said.