{"id":549800,"date":"2023-01-25T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=549800"},"modified":"2023-01-25T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T04:29:43","slug":"pilots-licence-suspension-over-passenger-incident-excessive-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-licence-suspension-over-passenger-incident-excessive-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot&#8217;s licence suspension over passenger incident &#8216;excessive&#8217;: Air India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Tata Group&#8217;s Air India said on Tuesday the recent suspension of a pilot&#8217;s licence by the aviation regulator was &#8220;excessive&#8221; after a passenger behaved in an unruly manner onboard one of its flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation last week fined the airline 3 million rupees ($36,774) over its handling of the incident on a Nov. 25 flight in which a male passenger, while apparently inebriated, allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator also suspended the licence of the pilot-in-command on the New York-New Delhi flight for three months.<\/p>\n<p>Air India said the matter should have been classified and reported as unruly behaviour by a passenger, but the flight crew and ground staff did not report it as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Tata Group&#8217;s Air India said on Tuesday the recent suspension of a pilot&#8217;s licence by the aviation regulator was &#8220;excessive&#8221; after a passenger behaved in an unruly manner onboard one of its flights. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation last week fined the airline 3 million rupees ($36,774) over its handling of the incident on a Nov. 25 flight in which a male passenger, while apparently inebriated, allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger. The regulator also suspended the licence of the pilot-in-command on the New York-New Delhi flight for three months. Air India said the matter should [&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-549800","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\/549800","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=549800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}