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Air India is fined $37,000 after the incident in which a drunken bank manager is accused of urinating on a woman in business class.
The fine, corresponding to more than 370,000 Swedish kronor, is imposed by the Indian aviation authority. The authority also gives the airline’s head of in-flight service a fine equivalent to one-tenth of the corporate fine, according to information in Indian media.
The pilot of the flight has also had his license suspended for three months, for not having taken the responsibility he should have for the incident.
The incident, which in the Indian media goes under the heading “peegate” (read: kissgate), occurred on a flight from New York to New Delhi at the end of November. The man, an Indian citizen and until the incident vice president of American Wells Fargo’s operations in India, was drunk and is accused of urinating on a female passenger during the flight.
The whole thing became even more embarrassing because at first the incident did not seem to be taken seriously by the company. The man had to get off the plane as usual and it was only after the woman’s story appeared in the media that things started to happen. The bank CEO was arrested, fired by his American employer and the company’s CEO Campbell Wilson made an apology.