Two Air India Pilots Got In A Fight Over WHAT?!

Is that notation something flight attendants are expected to do and the co-pilot felt it beneath him? Not that it would be an excuse for assault either way. Personally think the larger interest of the airline would be better served getting a violent man out of the plane.

How is an airline with such staff behavior and total disregard for it's passengers safety be allowed to be a Star Alliance member. This is absolutely shameful.

It's a good job the pilot wasn't female. The co-pilot would have probably tried to rape as well as assault

After the German wings incident did they really have to fly after a scuffle between the captain and the first officer?
Wouldn't it have been more sensible if the first officer was offloaded after all airlines like Korean air offload their crew for serving nuts in a bag!

Ben

For a guy who has been around the globe (several times), your reaction to AI continues to surprise me. You have mentioned several times you enjoy "observing and learning" rather than touristy stuff. Clearly, you have a little bit of "observe and learn" to do on government employees in India.

AI is a GoI owned airline (which says a lot about it)!! Their employees are equivalent of postal service employees... but only worse. There is little to no supervisory oversight and no consequences to any actions. It's not they are incompetent (like our TSA), they just don't care. And, they don't have a reason to do so.

Having said all that, title for this post really sounds like sensationalist media. Try spending a little more time at DEL/BOM (not in the lounges) , but in the terminals and see how the airport employees behave. Now put the same people in uniform and let's call them... flight crew. Now get the picture?

I didn't know Jeremy Clarkson knew how to fly a plane.

I did know about James May's G-OCOK plane registration though.

@ Joe - it's a good thing he wasn't German. Otherwise, he would've flown the plane into a mountain.