Indian airlines push for no-fly list to ban unruly passengers


  • World
  • Friday, 24 Mar 2017

An IndiGo Airlines aircraft prepares to land as a man paddles his cycle rickshaw in Ahmedabad, India, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Several Indian airlines, including the country's biggest carrier IndiGo, on Friday proposed creating a no-fly list to ban unruly passengers, a day after a lawmaker admitted assaulting an official from state-owned carrier Air India.

Air India and member airlines of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) that includes IndiGo, owned by InterGlobe Aviation, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and Go Air have proposed creating the country's first such list.

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