GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 31st Jan. Many passengers at Delhi airport on Wednesday were seen protesting against domestic carrier IndiGo after their flight was reportedly cancelled.
In a video posted by news agency ANI, the passengers can be heard shouting “band karo, band karo” (stop it) after their flight from Delhi to Jharkhand’s Deoghar was cancelled.
According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, over 10 flights were cancelled and more than 50 flights were delayed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday morning due to bad weather.
Earlier in the day, IndiGo issued an advisory stating that flight operations in Delhi, Srinagar, and Chandigarh are likely to be affected due to inclement weather.
IndiGo was fined 1.2 crore for five violations earlier this month after its passengers were seen eating on the tarmac while waiting for their flight to take off.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) called it a violation of apron discipline and stated, “It came to the notice of the DGCA through social media that on January 15, passengers of two IndiGo flights were on the apron for a considerable period at the CSMI Airport, Mumbai (MIAL). This violates Para 5 of DGCA Air Safety circular 04 of 2007 which directs all agencies working at the airport not to permit walking on an active apron. The presence of passengers on the apron for a considerable period violates apron discipline as it jeopardized the safety of the passengers and the aircraft.”
IndiGo has been given 30 days to pay the penalty, which is the highest imposed on airlines in recent times.
