Apparently, the passengers are becoming wiser….
New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) A Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight was delayed by more than one and half hours first due to fog and then by a passenger who refused to fly on a plane being piloted by a woman.
Indigo flight 6E 179, which was supposed to depart at around 8 AM, could not take off due to fog.
And when the weather cleared and the plane was about to take off, a middle-aged man, Pramod Ambalekar objected to the flight being commandeered by a woman, airport sources said.
He called the airhostesses and objected to a woman pilot. The man relented only after he was told that he would be taken off the plane with his check-in baggage.
According to sources, the man had a fight with his wife and so objected to a woman pilot flying an aircraft.
The airline, in a statement, said the passenger flying by 6E 179 was asked to deboard by the airline security staff after he "misbehaved and showed disrespect to our crew members".