 "Trouble for Jet Airways crew following Sonu Nigam's mid-air concert")
Jet Airways on Friday suspended their crew for allowing playback singer Sonu Nigam to sing from the aircraft's address system during a flight.
On January 4, passengers on a Jet Airways chartered plane requested Nigam to sing for them. Nigam obliged and sang two popular songs from the flight's address system.
However, this did not go down too well with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, after the video of Nigam's mid-air concert was posted by some passengers on social media.
Jet Airways said in its statement that the flight announcement system was allegedly misused and corrective training to reinforce strict adherence to operating procedure would be given to the plane's staff.
ANI tweeted Nigam’s rebuttal to Jet Airway’s action. “To suspend crew for asking me to sing on address system, when the seat belt signs were off, and no announcements were to be made is nothing less than punishing someone for spreading happiness: Sonu Nigam,” tweeted ANI.
To suspend crew for asking me to sing on address system, when the seat belt signs were off, and no announcements were to be made (contd)
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 5, 2016
... is nothing less than punishing someone for spreading happiness: Sonu Nigam
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 5, 2016
According to a series of tweets by ANI, Nigam said that in the past he has witnessed an elaborate fashion show as well as small concerts in an aircraft.
I've witnessed an elaborate fashion show, small concerts in an aircraft: Sonu Nigam
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 5, 2016
Seen pilots & crew crack jokes to loosen up passengers in other countries, which is so cool: Sonu Nigam
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 5, 2016
This act of lack of common sense, according to me, is the real intolerance: Sonu Nigam
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 5, 2016
Another tweet attributed to the singer quoted him as saying that Jet Airways' act showed a lack of common sense and exemplified real intolerance.
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