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DGCA, airlines & 24-hr confusion over in-flight photography ban diktat

Multiple airlines informed the DGCA that they were amending their in-flight announcements to include an additional line about ban on mobile photography and related disciplinary actions

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Experts said the regulator doesn’t have the power to impose financial penalty and is forced to threaten airlines to act or face disruption in operations

Arindam Majumdar New Delhi
An angry regulator warning airlines with two-week suspension of routes if they don’t enforce a ban on on-board photography led to CEOs scratching their heads on how to stop mobile photography and anxious flyers asking if clicking a selfie may lead them being included in the dreaded ‘no-fly list’.

Multiple airlines such as IndiGo and GoAir informed the DGCA that they were amending their in-flight announcements to include an additional line about ban on mobile photography and related disciplinary actions.

“Thank you stupid Indian media and television. You have made the government reverse its own policy of photography on board aircraft. All