{"id":548907,"date":"2023-01-21T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548907"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:35:43","slug":"urination-fiasco-air-india-fined-rs-30-lakh-pilot-grounded-for-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/urination-fiasco-air-india-fined-rs-30-lakh-pilot-grounded-for-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Urination fiasco: Air India fined Rs 30 lakh; pilot grounded for 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has fined Air India Rs 30 lakh for violating rules while handling an unruly incident on its New York-Delhi flight on November 26, when ex-Wells Fargo vice-president Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger.<\/p>\n<p>A DGCA official told Business Standard that it is \u201cone of the highest fines\u201d ever imposed on an airline for violating rules.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the regulator on Friday said it has also suspended the pilot-in-command of the flight (AI-102) for three months, and imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh on the airline\u2019s director of in-flight services for their failure to discharge duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has fined Air India Rs 30 lakh for violating rules while handling an unruly incident on its New York-Delhi flight on November 26, when ex-Wells Fargo vice-president Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger. A DGCA official told Business Standard that it is \u201cone of the highest fines\u201d ever imposed on an airline for violating rules. In a statement, the regulator on Friday said it has also suspended the pilot-in-command of the flight (AI-102) for three months, and imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh on the airline\u2019s director of in-flight services [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548907","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=548907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}