“0 Tolerance”: Minister On Airlines Banning Kunal Kamra Over Heckling
Hardeep Singh Puri “recommended” different airways to observe IndiGo in banning the comic (Report)
New Delhi:
Airlines will have to be certain “0 tolerance” for any task that has the possible to jeopardize passengers’ protection, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri stated on Thursday.
His remarks come two days after comic Kunal Kamra allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami on an IndiGo flight that ended in a flying ban at the comic by way of 4 airways.
“I had expressed my perspectives with reference to the unruly behaviour of a passenger on board IndiGo flight. I reiterate that airways will have to be certain “0 Tolerance” for any task which has the possible to jeopardize protection of passengers in an airplane,” Mr Puri stated on Twitter.
After Kunal Kamra posted an roughly two-minute-long video on Twitter on Wednesday during which he requested Mr Goswami if he used to be a “coward or a journalist”, IndiGo banned the comic for a duration of six months from its flights.
Mr Puri then “recommended” different airways to observe go well with. As a result, Air India, GoAir and SpiceJet banned additionally Mr Kamra until “additional understand”. Vistara and Air Asia India are but to take a choice on this subject.
