In keeping with Air India’s alcohol coverage, just one drink may be served at a time. And this ‘one drink’ has been outlined as a 12-ounce beer, a full glass of wine or champagne. (Getty)
The Directorate Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has mentioned it is the discretion of each airline to set the restrict on alcoholic drinks to be served onboard.
Petrified of the same flight expertise like the 2 Air India flights in November-December 2022 the place drunk males ended up ‘peeing’ on co-passengers? The reply is evident. It’s utterly your luck.
Sadly, there’s no frequent crackdown rule or measure by the airways’ regulatory physique. All of it is determined by the airways you’ve booked your flight with.
This clarification was made by the Directorate Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA) earlier than the Supreme Courtroom in an affidavit whereas responding to a petition by a 72-year-old girl who was urinated upon by a co-passenger on a New York-Delhi flight demanding pressing formulation of an SOP to cope with intoxicated passengers.
In keeping with a report in Instances of India, the DGCA has mentioned that Civil Aviation Necessities (CAR) are in place to cope with “dealing with of unruly passengers”.
On the restrict on alcoholic drinks to be served onboard, DGCA mentioned it’s the discretion of each airline, as per Clause 4.3 of CAR, to formulate a coverage in order to not depart passengers inebriated, which improve the chance of them committing nuisance, the report acknowledged.
The Air India flight sufferer had, in her petition, requested the apex courtroom to direct the aviation regulatory physique to border a ‘zero tolerance’ SOP and guidelines to strictly cope with onboard unruly/disruptive behaviour and its implementation in letter and spirit by all airways.
She alleged that the Air India crew faltered in dealing with the delicate concern in an informal method, inflicting immense harm to her dignity.
In keeping with TOI, the girl mentioned first they served extra laborious drinks to the accused co-passenger after which compelled her to enter right into a settlement with him whereas failing of their responsibility to report the incident to the police.
She added that the DGCA should take into account “drunkenness” as unruly or disruptive behaviour on an plane.
So far as the alcohol coverage of Air India is worried, a report by India At this time had final yr talked about the airline’s guidelines for ingesting that states how a lot alcohol may be served to a passenger earlier than they’re lower off.
A Take a look at Air India’s On-board Ingesting Coverage:
• Flyers ought to be served liquor at their seats solely. Consumption of liquor introduced by a passenger ought to be discouraged.
• Just one drink ought to be served at a time, with one drink being outlined as a 12-ounce beer, a full glass of wine or champagne, or one miniature bottle of liquor.
• No alcohol ought to be served to these underneath 18 years of age.
• On flights with a length of lower than 4 hours, not more than two drinks ought to be served to the passenger.
• There should be a break of no less than three hours earlier than serving further drinks as soon as three drinks are served to the passenger. Notably, the airline coverage mentions that these restrictions could not apply to passengers travelling in enterprise class.
• Cabin crew are suggested to cease the service of liquor to intoxicated passengers.
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