IndiGo pilot threatens Bengaluru woman at airport, off-rostered after minister’s intervention

NEW DELHI : An IndiGo pilot, who had threatened two woman passengers while disembarking the flight at Bengaluru airport, was taken off duty following an intervention by Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The IndiGo pilot is alleged to have misbehaved with the lady and even threatened her with jail after she asked for a wheelchair for her 75-year-old mother.

Supriya Unni Nair’s tweet narrating her ordeal caught Puri’s attention who then asked his office to contact the budget airline. “I requested my office to contact IndiGo as soon as I saw the tweet by Ms Supriya Unni Nair about the pilot’s behaviour with her & her 75 year old mother in need of wheelchair assistance. The airline has informed the ministry of civil aviation that the pilot has been off-rostered pending full enquiry,” Puri wrote on Twitter.