Air India CMD Pradeep Singh Kharola has called for a meeting of senior officials after a flight carrying Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju was unduly delayed at the airport here, airline sources said.<\/p>\n
Following the incident involving Delhi-Vijaywada flight on December 13 morning, the airline has already suspended three officials.<\/p>\n
Sources said Kharola has taken a serious note of the incident, which was mainly a result of co-ordination issues.<\/p>\n
He has called a meeting today of senior officials, including director of operations and scheduling, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The Air India flight, on which the minister was travelling, was delayed for long, an official in the minister’s office confirmed.<\/p>\n
The flight had nearly 125 passengers.<\/p>\n
The incident came days after Kharola took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of the disinvestment-bound airline.<\/p>\n
About the incident, an Air India spokesperson said the CMD has taken strict action for the confusion created and subsequent delay of the flight.<\/p>\n
“Three officials have been suspended and a warning letter has been issued to the captain for reporting late by 15 minutes,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Air India CMD Pradeep Singh Kharola has called for a meeting of senior officials after a flight carrying Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju was unduly delayed at the airport here, airline sources said. Following the incident involving Delhi-Vijaywada flight on December 13 morning, the airline has already suspended three officials. Sources said Kharola has taken a serious note of the incident, which was mainly a result of co-ordination issues. He has called a meeting today of senior officials, including director of operations and scheduling, the sources said. The Air India flight, on which the minister was travelling, was delayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}