Ahmedabad/Hyderabad: It was a day-long ordeal for a Hyderabad-based entrepreneur at Ahmedabad airport after he was deplaned by an airline. Praveen Pavuluri was offloaded from Ahmedabad-Hyderabad Indigo flight last Friday for allegedly speaking rudely to the pilot.
Pavuluri, who was on a business visit to the city, was offloaded after a minor altercation that took place on the aerobridge. According to Pavuluri the disagreement took place when the pilot wanted him to make way. "While I was waiting in the queue on the aerobridge with other passengers, an airline staffer asked to me make way for the pilot. I refused and requested him to wait till the few passengers before me had boarded. This clearly did not go down well with the staffers. They (the ground staff and pilot) kept insisting that I move, rather rudely. That is when I lost my cool and asked them to get lost," Pavuluri told TOI.
However, minutes later, after Pavuluri took his seat, deplaning orders were conveyed to him by the security officer of the airlines. "As the pilot had announced that the flight would not take off unless I disembarked from the aircraft, I volunteered to meet him and apologize, but he refused to listen," Pavuluri said.
Following the incident, CISF officials were called who took away Pavuluri to the airport terminal manager's office. Spending three hours at the manager's office asking the airline officials to give in writing the reason to deplane him, he gave up and checked-in at a nearby hotel and took a plane to Hyderabad on Saturday.
24/01/12 Times of India
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