Supriya Sule slams Air India over flight delay: 'We pay premium fares'

NCP SP MP Supriya Sule slammed Air India on Saturday for constant mismanagement and termed the flight delays as a continuous trend affecting passengers despite paying premium faresSules furious response came after an Air India flight she booked was delayed by 1 hour and 19 minutesShe highlighted that flights are delayed despite paying premium fares and demanded that Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu hold the airline accountable for frequent delaysFlights are endlessly delayed this is unacceptable We pay premium fares yet flights are never on time Professionals children and senior citizens all affected by this constant mismanagement the Baramati MP posted on XSule said she was travelling on Air India flight AI0508 which was delayed by 1 hour and 19 minutesPart of a continuous trend of delays affecting passengers she addedSule demanded stricter regulations be enforced to hold airlines like Air India accountable for repeated delays and ensure better service standards for passengersSpeaking to reporters Sule claimed flight trackers were faulty which gave misleading resultsI was stranded at the Delhi airport on the flight but the tracker showed that the flight was airborne I would take up the issue of trackers with the Civil Aviation Minister Sule addedA response to a query sent to Air India on Sules charges was awaitedNotably Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had last month slammed Tata Groupowned Air India for allotting him a broken and sunk seat After Chouhans outburst his ministerial colleague K Rammohan Naidu instructed the airline to take necessary actionAir India apologised for the incident and ordered a thorough probe while the DGCA sought a report from the airline in the matterChouhan had boarded the Delhibound Air India flight AI436 from Bhopal for Delhi to inaugurate a farmers fair in PusaI was allotted seat number 8C When I reached my seat and sat down I found that it was broken and sunk Sitting was uncomfortable the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister had statedThe Union Minister claimed several seats on the flight were in a similar conditionChouhan said he assumed Air Indias service would have improved after being taken over by the Tata management but he was mistakenHe had said that charging passengers full fare and then making them sit on defective and uncomfortable seats was unethical Isnt this a form of deception towards passengersAfter Chouhan shared his experience on X Air India apologised for the inconvenience and ordered a thorough probe into the incidentWith inputs from PTI