enforcing the rules. “Airline shall ensure that all passengers are wearing face mask properly and continue to wear the mask throughout the journey.
The face masks can be removed under exceptional circumstances and for permitted reasons only," said the DGCA in its new order. “In case, any passenger on board an aircraft refuses to wear mask or violates the ‘Covid Protocol for passengers’ even after repeated warnings, during the course of the flight, such passenger may be treated as ‘Unruly Passenger’," it added.
This follows an order by the Delhi High Court, which stated that strict actions should be taken against those passengers who are found violating Covid-19 safety norms at airports and inside aircraft.
The court had said that all persons who are found not wearing masks and abiding by hand hygiene norms should be booked, fined and placed on the no-fly list.