Mamata Banerjee Flight Row

A day after MPs were warned that on airlines, they are passengers like everybody else and cannot jeopardize safety, a parliamentarian from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress delayed a flight by nearly 40 minutes because she was not given the exit row seat she had booked and paid for, after which she "shouted and screamed" at the cabin crew.

Cockpit crew of the three aircraft reporting short on fuel over Kolkata recently was "crying wolf" and played "naughty" to seek early landing to show good on-time performance, a top DGCA official was quoted by news agency Press Trust of India.

Six private airline pilots have been grounded and asked to take "corrective training" for reporting low fuel after being asked to hover at the airport in Kolkata last week, which became a huge political controversy as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was in one of the flights.

A day after MPs were warned that on airlines, they are passengers like everybody else and cannot jeopardize safety, a parliamentarian from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress delayed a flight by nearly 40 minutes because she was not given the exit row seat she had booked and paid for, after which she "shouted and screamed" at the cabin crew.

Cockpit crew of the three aircraft reporting short on fuel over Kolkata recently was "crying wolf" and played "naughty" to seek early landing to show good on-time performance, a top DGCA official was quoted by news agency Press Trust of India.

Six private airline pilots have been grounded and asked to take "corrective training" for reporting low fuel after being asked to hover at the airport in Kolkata last week, which became a huge political controversy as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was in one of the flights.