No-fly list for unruly passengers likely by month-end

After a series of incidents, the civil aviation ministry is likely to implement its rules on a no-fly list for unruly passengers later this month once the ongoing Parliament session gets over.

The no fly list will empower domestic airlines to impose a ban on unruly passengers between two months and life-time ban.

The no fly list, which was supposed to be implemented from early July, was delayed as the government was seeing how databases of different airlines can be linked so that a person put on unruly passenger's list by one airline is not able to fly on the other Indian carriers too.

The government has recommended three levels of unruly behaviour, each with a corresponding duration of flying ban of 3 months, 6 months and two years or more without limit.

The move to revise the existing rules came in the wake of Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad assaulting an Air India staffer with a slipper for not being able to fly business class in an all-economy flight in March.

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