Follow protocol for MPs, Civil Aviation Ministry tells all airlines
Follow protocol for MPs, Civil Aviation Ministry tells all airlines
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NEW DELHI: The Civil Aviation Ministry has written to all airlines, airport operators and the aviation security regulator to ensure compliance with the "protocol/courtesy/support to members of Parliament (MPs) at airports." The development comes after some issues of negligence regarding the protocol came to the notice of the ministry.

The ministry said in a letter dated September 21, 2021 that ''Instructions have been issued from time to time for extending the protocol to MPs at airports. However, some issues of negligence regarding extending the protocol to honourable MPs at airports have come to the notice of the ministry.''

To be sure, a majority of senior government functionaries board, including recent aviation ministers, board aircraft like normal passengers and stand in queue for security checks. But the ministry often gets complaints from MPs who may have felt slighted during travels.Under the protocol, MPs must get access to reserved lounge facilities at all domestic and international airports across the country and they should be served tea or coffee or water free of cost. the protocol guidelines, which were issued in 2007, mentioned.

Under the protocol, the airlines should have a duty manager or a senior staff member to facilitate MPs for the completion of check-in formalities when they report at the airport. All airports must designate a protocol officer who has to ensure that all facilities or courtesies are extended to the MPs, it mentioned.

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