KOLKATA: A family from Kolkata that had travelled to Maldives earlier this month via Mumbai has alleged misbehaviour and harassment by airline ground staff prior to their departure for Malé. The family lodged a complaint with Sahar police station in Mumbai on Friday.
According to Kunal Diwan (37), who was travelling on Air India flight AI 267 from Mumbai to Malé on May 6 with mother Punam (60) and brother Ashwani (36), a ground staff at the AI check-in counter insisted that Punam furnish a Covid negative RT-PCR report to travel in the flight despite there being no such requirement by the government of Mauritius. All three travellers were fully vaccinated. But Kunal had mistakenly downloaded in his cellphone the certificate issued after his mother received the first dose. Though there is a provision to check the second dose using the registration ID mentioned in the certificate, the airline staff insisted that she undergo an RT-PCR test to board the flight.
