MUMBAI: Airlines have put 149 unruly passengers on `No Fly List’ from the year 2000 till date, said the civil aviation, minister of state, Gen. (Dr) V. K.Singh (Retd) in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Last month, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson had said that instances of inebriated passengers behaving in an unruly manner onboard flights had gone up across airlines, the world over, post the pandemic.
The said passengers were banned from flying following the recommendations of the respective Internal Committee constituted by the airline according to the unruly passenger handling norms laid down by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).