Passengers eating on tarmac: ₹1.20 cr fine on IndiGo, ₹90L on Mumbai Airport

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IndiGo fined 1.20 crore over the incident of passengers having food on tarmac at Mumbai airport...

The civil aviation ministry cracked the whip on IndiGo and the Mumbai Airport in connection with the viral videos of passengers eating food on the tarmac and imposed hefty penalties on them..

The Mumbai airport will have to pay 90 lakh penalty, while IndiGo will have to pay 1.20 crore as penalty..

IndiGo has been penalised by regulator BCAS (Bureau of Civil Aviation Security); the penalty on Mumbai Airport was imposed by DGCA and BCAS, 30 lakh and 60 lakh, respectively..

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