New Delhi: A two-hour delay on a Goa-Mumbai flight that made a Congress MP and his wife miss their connecting flight to Indore two years ago has paved the way for the royal treatment that parliamentarians could get from private airlines, in addition to a fawning Air India. The MP had since then been constantly complaining to the government and Lok Sabha privileges committee, which saw the panel coming down heavily on aviation ministry officials. Rattled by MPs' criticism, aviation officials conceived the plan to make it mandatory for private airlines also to "extend courtesy" to MPs like AI.
The genesis of this latest aam aadmi heartburn lies in Congress Lok Sabha member from Ujjain, Prem Chand Guddu, and his wife taking a private airline flight from Goa to Mumbai about two years ago. "The flight was delayed by two hours and we kept waiting at the Goa airport as there was no information from the airline. As a result of this delay, we missed the connecting Mumbai-Indore flight," 54-year-old Guddu told TOI.
The MP claimed that the private carrier did not make any arrangement for their night stay in Mumbai.
31/01/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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The genesis of this latest aam aadmi heartburn lies in Congress Lok Sabha member from Ujjain, Prem Chand Guddu, and his wife taking a private airline flight from Goa to Mumbai about two years ago. "The flight was delayed by two hours and we kept waiting at the Goa airport as there was no information from the airline. As a result of this delay, we missed the connecting Mumbai-Indore flight," 54-year-old Guddu told TOI.
The MP claimed that the private carrier did not make any arrangement for their night stay in Mumbai.
31/01/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
