Air India in hot water again after Bangkok in-flight pee incident
Business class on an Air India flight to Bangkok turned into a piddle palace after a sozzled passenger allegedly whipped it out to pee on a fellow traveller mid-flight, despite the loos being in full working order.
The Air India high-flyer is now being probed by police after taking the pee, literally, on a fellow business class passenger just before touchdown in Bangkok.
The shocking splash-and-dash incident happened on flight AI 2336 from New Delhi yesterday, April 9, just as the jet was preparing to land.
Despite the flight’s lavatories being fully functional, the man allegedly unzipped and relieved himself on a fellow traveller in the business cabin, which features two-by-two seating.
The victim, reportedly a company managing director, was said to be “aggrieved” after being doused mid-air, while airline staff scrambled to deal with the bog-standard disgrace.
Cabin crew offered to help the soaked passenger file a complaint in Bangkok, but he declined at the time, possibly still in shock from the golden shower in the skies.
Air India confirmed the matter has been reported to the police and that a committee will investigate whether to flush the accused flyer from future flights.
“In addition to warning the unruly passenger, our crew offered to assist an aggrieved passenger to take up a grievance with authorities in Bangkok, which was declined at the time,” the airline said in a statement.
The unnamed man had reportedly consumed alcohol but a friend insisted he “was not sloshed.”
Still, the incident has added to a growing list of booze-fuelled airborne pee-rades that have left the airline with a soggy reputation.
India’s Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu stated the passenger will be dealt with if found guilty.
“Whenever these kinds of incidents happen, the ministry takes note. If there is any wrongdoing, then we will take necessary action.”
This isn’t the first time Air India’s had to mop up a mess in business class.
In 2022, disgraced banker Shankar Mishra, then a Wells Fargo vice president, urinated on a 72 year old woman mid-flight from New York to Delhi. He was arrested, sacked, and sent to judicial custody.
His legal team claimed the woman “condoned” the act and had already been compensated, though the public was far from convinced.
Air India grounded the crew involved and CEO Campbell Wilson promised to overhaul the airline’s handling of inflight antics, vowing a “robust reporting system” for future airborne meltdowns.
Then in March 2023, Aryan Vohra, a 21 year old US university student, was nicked after he allegedly urinated on a fellow flyer while plastered on an American Airlines flight to Delhi. He was banned from the airline for life.
With yet another urine-gate scandal hitting the headlines, frequent flyers are now asking: what’s really going on at 30,000 feet?
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