The absence of a limit on drinks served to long-haul passengers, exemptions based on class of travel and letting the crew decide when a flyer has had one too many are compounded by the regulator’s hesitance to act.
American writer William Cuthbert Faulkner once said, “War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.” Now imagine if you are served free drinks on a flight. While it’s a great experience for the amount you’ve paid to travel, it may not always go well. As two recent incidents aboard Air India flights show.
On 26 November, a passenger named Shankar Mishra urinated on an elderly woman, allegedly in an inebriated condition, in the business class cabin of a New York-Delhi flight. On 4 January, the Delhi police filed an FIR against Mishra on the …
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