Civil Aviation Ministry proposes No-Fly list for unruly passengers

New Delhi: The curb the unruly behaviour of the passengers, the Civil Aviation Ministry has proposed a national no-fly list of the passengers, who misbehave during journey.

Announcement regarding this was made by the Civil Aviation Secretary RN Choubey, who said that the ministry proposes to bring out a national no fly list. It is better to do that by a central mechanism under DGCA than leave it to airlines." Choubey further said that there will be three types of unruly behaviour.

Types of behaviours classified as unruly:

• 1-- Disruptive behaviour such as physical gestures for which a passenger will be handed out a suspension of three months.
• 2-- Physically abusive behaviour and sexual harassment for which suspension from flying will be for six months
• 3-- Murderous assault or life-threatening behaviour, damage to aircraft operating systems for which suspension will be for 2 years or more.

The Civil Aviation secretary stated, “It is possible for us to come up with the finalisation of the amendment by June 30.”

Committee set up:

• The Civil Aviation Ministry has set up a committee to frame the final draft of the new set of rules.
• The draft will be made public for suggestions and comment which will be studied by the ministry for some time after which it will come out with the final Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR).

As per the IATA, in 2015, there were 10,854 reported cases of unruly behaviour by the passengers across airlines worldwide, which translate into one incident for every 1,205 flights.