Air India has been fined Rs 10 lakh over the pee-gate incidentNew Delhi: Air India has been fined Rs 10 lakh by the aviation regulator DGCA for not reporting an incident last month when a man allegedly peed on a blanket on the vacant seat of a woman in a Paris-Delhi flight.The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, or DGCA, said the Tata-run airline delayed in referring the December 6 incident to its internal committee.This was the second incident of a man peeing on a passenger’s seat on board an Air India flight, after another man allegedly peed on a woman co-passenger in a New York-Delhi flight on November 26.Air India had not reported the incidents to the aviation regulator before they came in the media.The DGCA was told about the December 6 incident only after it asked for details from Air India.Air India “didn’t report the incident until DGCA sought the incident report from them on 05.01.2023,” the DGCA had said in a statement.The airline’s reply made it clear that it did not follow “provisions related to handling of unruly passengers as per DGCA,” the statement said.
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