Mumbai: An Air India pilot faces suspension after she defied orders to switch her scheduled Mumbai-Jodhpur-Delhi flight for a later, direct flight from Mumbai to Delhi. Her reason for doing so? She wanted to fly via Jodhpur to pick up an order for the city's famous onion kachoris that she had already placed. Her refusal to swap flights ended up delaying the Mumbai-Delhi flight, which was left without a pilot, by an hour.
On Sunday, Captain Smriti Trehan was instructed by Air India to operate the 2pm Mumbai-Delhi flight. However, she chose to ignore the order and operate her originally scheduled 12pm flight, which had a halt at Jodhpur, all for the love of kachoris.
Trehan, who is from Delhi, was staying at a hotel in Mumbai when she received the instruction to switch flights. However, she reached the airport in time for the 12pm flight and informed the airline's operations department that she would operate that one.
15/01/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
