Around 34 domestic departure flights from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), Delhi were delayed due to bad weather and other related issues on Saturday, according to the airport authorities.
The CPI MP was scheduled to fly from Trivandrum to Delhi on Vistara airlines on Friday when his flight along with other passengers got delayed. Upset with the delay, Viswam wrote to the minister sharing his and his fellow passengers' ordeal.
After two back-to-back urination incidents were reported mid-air on an Air India flight, the airline chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson asked his employees to report "any improper behaviour on board to authorities at the earliest even if the matter appears to be resolved".
US-based financial services company Wells Fargo on Friday terminated its employee Shankar Mishra, who had allegedly urinated on an elderly lady onboard an Air India flight between New York and Delhi on November 26 last year.
The accused man, who allegedly urinated on an elderly lady onboard an Air India flight, Shankar Mishra's counsel on Friday said that the victim accepted the compensation and suddenly complaint thing was a malicious after-thought.
In wake of Air India mid-air urination incidents, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued an advisory to the head of operations of all scheduled airlines with regard to handling unruly passenger on board and respective responsibilities as per the regulations.
A day after Delhi Police asked the authority concerned to issue a Look Out Circular (LOC), now the Delhi Police has reached out to the US-based Wells Fargo company's legal department to cooperate with investigations against accused S Mishra who has been charged under several IPC sections for
Delhi police on Friday issued summons to 6-8 crew members, including the pilot of the Air India flight in the urination incident in a New York-Delhi flight last year.
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal, demanding arrests in the recent incidents of drunk men urinating on women on flights, issued a notice to the Delhi Police, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Air India on Friday.
Bad weather conditions, prevailing in Northern and Central parts of India, including the national capital, on Friday, disrupted flight operations at Indira Gandhi International Airport with over eight flight departures delayed.