Following are some of the cases where Indian carriers have put passengers on the no fly list:
January 2023- Air India imposes four-month flying ban on Shankar Mishra, who is accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger onboard a New York-Delhi flight on November 26, 2022.
July 2022- IndiGo barred Kerala ruling front LDF’s Convenor E P Jayarajan and two Youth Congress workers — Farzeen Majid and Naveen Kumar — for a brief period in connection with a scuffle onboard a plane carrying state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The incident had happened on a Kannur-Thiruvananthapuram flight on June 13, 2022.
February 2022-SpiceJet imposed a 15-day flying ban on bodybuilder Bobby Kataria for a smoking incident in its Dubai-Delhi flight on January 20, 2022.
January 2020- IndiGo barred stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra from taking its flights for a certain period after he allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami aboard a Mumbai-Lucknow flight. Later, Air India, SpiceJet and Go First had also imposed flying ban on Kamra.
May 2018- A Mumbai-based businessman Birju Kishore Salla was put on no fly list for a hijack scare onboard a Jet Airways flight in October 2017.
March 2017-Air India had slapped a flying ban on then Shiva Sena’s Lok Sabha member Ravindra Gaikwad after he assaulted a staffer at the Delhi airport. Subsequently, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, GoAir and IndiGo had also barred him for a certain period.
