Major General (retired) Birender Dhanoa, who claimed on Twitter he was \u2018bumped off my paid seat\u2019 on an IndiGo flight to make way for some former bureaucrat and party’, rejected the airline’s explanation that a \u2018group of four elderly passengers, who had walking issues, inadvertently selected emergency row at the time of check-in. \u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry don\u2019t buy that. They walked off the plane all sprightly. Be honest in your admission of whatever it was you were up to. We aren\u2019t gullible fools. It was at the boarding gate that I was told about the switch, after check in and bag drop. No attempt was made to info me prior,\u201d the former army officer said on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Major General (retired) Dhanoa further sought to know from the Gurugram-headquartered carrier why should he be inconvenienced for someone else’s mistake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Major General (retired) Birender Dhanoa, who claimed on Twitter he was \u2018bumped off my paid seat\u2019 on an IndiGo flight to make way for some former bureaucrat and party’, rejected the airline’s explanation that a \u2018group of four elderly passengers, who had walking issues, inadvertently selected emergency row at the time of check-in. \u2019 \u201cSorry don\u2019t buy that. They walked off the plane all sprightly. Be honest in your admission of whatever it was you were up to. We aren\u2019t gullible fools. It was at the boarding gate that I was told about the switch, after check in and bag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468872","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}