Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu had asked his ministry officials to make it compulsory for airlines to use local languages for in-flight announcements besides Hindi and English but was told that this measure was “practically not feasible”.
On December 26, his private secretary Rohit Yadav wrote a note to the civil aviation ministry, stating that the minister has “directed that announcement on public address systems at all airports in India and also by the scheduled airlines should be in local language followed by Hindi and English”.
