Guardian: India's major airlines ban Shiv Sena MP after slipper assault on steward
Mar 24, 2017, 5:40 am
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Guardian: India's major airlines ban Shiv Sena MP after slipper assault on steward
India's major airlines ban Shiv Sena MP after slipper assault on steward
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-class-dispute
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Air India employee beaten up on plane by Ravindra Gaikwad after MP was given an economy seat instead of business class.
An Indian politician has been banned from flying on most of the country’s major carriers after admitting he used a slipper to thrash an Air India steward.
Ravindra Gaikwad, an MP in India’s lower house for the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, claimed the attendant had insulted him on the Pune to New Delhi flight.
“What did he say, that I hit him with my hand? I hit him 25 times with a slipper,” an unrepentant Gaikwad told ANI news agency in video footage it posted on Twitter and aired on Indian news channels.
An Indian politician has been banned from flying on most of the country’s major carriers after admitting he used a slipper to thrash an Air India steward.
Ravindra Gaikwad, an MP in India’s lower house for the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, claimed the attendant had insulted him on the Pune to New Delhi flight.
“What did he say, that I hit him with my hand? I hit him 25 times with a slipper,” an unrepentant Gaikwad told ANI news agency in video footage it posted on Twitter and aired on Indian news channels.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-class-dispute
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Mar 24, 2017, 5:51 am
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The number of current Indian politicians with a criminal record or suspected criminal violence history is shocking, so I'm not surprised to find that an Indian MP was throwing footwear at someone who didn't do as the Member of Parliament wanted.
I'm no big fan of blacklists being applied to individuals except perhaps as part and parcel of a criminal conviction and related sentence, and so I would rather see the Indian justice system go after this guy and hit him with the book.
I'm no big fan of blacklists being applied to individuals except perhaps as part and parcel of a criminal conviction and related sentence, and so I would rather see the Indian justice system go after this guy and hit him with the book.
Mar 24, 2017, 11:33 am
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i don't think so....there is a world of a difference between raising a customer service issue & assaulting an airline employee....
Mar 24, 2017, 1:49 pm
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His constituents may see him less if he has to take surface transport back home.
Mar 24, 2017, 11:16 pm
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I can understand why Air India chose to ban him, but what evidence does the rest of the membership of the organisation have? Media reports? Those are hardly reliable on any issue as they well know. And if Air India has shared this information with them, they are in violation of their own Privacy Policy on sharing passenger data.
Mar 25, 2017, 6:47 am
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Exactly.
I can understand why Air India chose to ban him, but what evidence does the rest of the membership of the organisation have? Media reports? Those are hardly reliable on any issue as they well know. And if Air India has shared this information with them, they are in violation of their own Privacy Policy on sharing passenger data.
I can understand why Air India chose to ban him, but what evidence does the rest of the membership of the organisation have? Media reports? Those are hardly reliable on any issue as they well know. And if Air India has shared this information with them, they are in violation of their own Privacy Policy on sharing passenger data.
Mar 25, 2017, 7:00 am
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Exactly.
I can understand why Air India chose to ban him, but what evidence does the rest of the membership of the organisation have? Media reports? Those are hardly reliable on any issue as they well know. And if Air India has shared this information with them, they are in violation of their own Privacy Policy on sharing passenger data.
I can understand why Air India chose to ban him, but what evidence does the rest of the membership of the organisation have? Media reports? Those are hardly reliable on any issue as they well know. And if Air India has shared this information with them, they are in violation of their own Privacy Policy on sharing passenger data.
Mar 26, 2017, 7:42 am
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What are you talking about ? This guy beats up an airline employee and then had the temerity to brag about it on national TV. And for what ? Demanding a business class seat on a all-economy flight ? Such guys should be taught a proper lesson - no more airline travel for them.
I condemn the actions of the MP, but I condemn in stronger terms the action taken by the FIA to publicly "blacklist" this passenger. Today it is a high profile case with little doubt about the actual facts, but tomorrow it could be you or I quietly banned for simply standing up for our rights and a tenuous accusation made by the all-in-one judge, jury and executioner. A slippery slope indeed.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:11 am
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The proper lesson would be to prosecute him for assault. Then he would be in jail and not able to travel by airline, railway or bullock cart.
I condemn the actions of the MP, but I condemn in stronger terms the action taken by the FIA to publicly "blacklist" this passenger. Today it is a high profile case with little doubt about the actual facts, but tomorrow it could be you or I quietly banned for simply standing up for our rights and a tenuous accusation made by the all-in-one judge, jury and executioner. A slippery slope indeed.
I condemn the actions of the MP, but I condemn in stronger terms the action taken by the FIA to publicly "blacklist" this passenger. Today it is a high profile case with little doubt about the actual facts, but tomorrow it could be you or I quietly banned for simply standing up for our rights and a tenuous accusation made by the all-in-one judge, jury and executioner. A slippery slope indeed.
Mar 27, 2017, 4:48 pm
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As an Indian, I fully support the decision made by Air India and other carriers to ban this idiot from all air travel. Passengers like this should not be given a chance to disrupt passengers and airline employees. In addition he should be put in prison and shamed by his constituents. People like him who lack common decency are not worthy of being a human being.
Banning dangerous unruly passengers is common place in the western world, and airlines do have the right to refuse boarding or ticket without reason.
However I do agree with some comments above on being a procedure for this kind of action, but there was an absence of no fly list in India till now and it has now been inaugurated by this idiot.
Please comment on whether you agree or disagree with my views.
Banning dangerous unruly passengers is common place in the western world, and airlines do have the right to refuse boarding or ticket without reason.
However I do agree with some comments above on being a procedure for this kind of action, but there was an absence of no fly list in India till now and it has now been inaugurated by this idiot.
Please comment on whether you agree or disagree with my views.