67 pilots found tipsy in last three years; most from Jet Airways!

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Press Trust of India / NDTV / Updated: August 11, 2011 00:59 IST.

New Delhi:  As many as 67 pilots tested positive during pre-flight alcohol tests since 2009 and nearly one-third of them are from Jet Airways, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

In a written reply, Minister for Civil Aviation Vayalar Ravi presented data of pilots found "positive during the pre-flight alcohol test."

The figures show that 67 cases of alcohol positive pilots were detected between January 2009 and June 2011 with 20 pilots being from Jet Airways. Nine pilots of Jetlite were alcohol positive during the period.

Following Jet Airways, 10 pilots each of Kingfisher and Indigo tested alcohol positive, eight pilots of Spicejet, six from NACIL, two from Go Air, one each from Alliance Air and Air India Charters, the data given in the reply states.

According to the reply, 33 tipsy pilots were detected during the tests in 2009, 23 in 2010 and 11 in 2011 till June.

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DSK maid lawyers seek to contact airline staff!

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reuters.com / PARIS/NEW YORK / Fri Aug 5, 2011 3:03am EDT.

(Reuters) - Lawyers for the New York hotel maid who says Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her are looking to talk to Air France staff about the once globetrotting chief of the International Monetary Fund.

Hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo's lawyers are fighting to keep a criminal case against Strauss-Kahn going after New York prosecutors said doubts had arisen over her credibility.

"I received an anonymous letter from someone who apparently works at Air France about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and we're now looking to talk to Air France employees," Diallo lawyer Kenneth Thompson told Reuters by email.

An Air France spokeswoman would not confirm whether the company had been contacted by Diallo's legal team or say whether the airline was aware of any complaints by flight attendants.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, spent much of his life on planes in his job as IMF head and travelled regularly on Air France (AIRF.PA).

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AIRLINES FAKE PILOTS: One more arrested in fake pilot scam, total arrests 21!

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August 3, 2011 / PTI. New Delhi / DC.

One more arrested in fake pilot scam, total arrests 21.

One more person has been arrested here for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure commercial flying licences, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 21.

The arrested person has been identified as Jigesh Patel. He was apprehended from the capital yesterday, a senior police official said. With this, Delhi Police has arrested 12 pilots, three DGCA officials, two middleman and two forgers.

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SUPREME COURT RULING: ‘Airlines must give refreshments to stranded’!

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July 9, 2011 / PTI, New Delhi / DC.

All air carriers, including low-cost airlines, are bound to provide adequate facilitation for passengers stranded after boarding the aircraft on account of inclement weather or other reasons, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Failure to extend the facility would make the airlines liable for compensation to the passengers, a bench of justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik said in a judgement.

“Facilitation of passengers who are stranded after boarding the aircraft on account of delay is an implied term of carriage of passengers accepted as an international practice, apart from being a requirement to be fulfilled under DGCA’s directives. Such facilitation, which relates to the health, survival and safety of the passengers, is to be provided not only by full-service carriers but all airlines, including low-cost carriers.

“The airline will be made liable to pay compensation if it fails to offer the minimum facilitation in the form of refreshment/water/beverages, as also toilet facilities to the passengers, who have boarded the plane, in the event of delay in departure, as such failure would amount to deficiency in service,” Justice Raveendran writing the judgement said.

This Age-old DGCA Directive has been implemented in breach rather than in letter and spirit, even by some not-so-low-cost airlines.

Will this Supreme Court's ruling would put some sense in the minds of the Airlines Managements?

Unlike elsewhere, Indian passengers are not very insistent of their rights and forget the moment they reach their destinations.

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