Bangalore: Malaysian carrier AirAsia on Thursday withdrew all copies of its in-flight magazine from circulation and removed it from its website, complying with an order of aviation regulator DGCA, for wrongly depicting the map of India.
The airline, which was directed to comply with the order by 5 pm, informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that it had withdrawn all the copies of the magazine, Travel3sixty, from its flights and removed the map from the website, senior DGCA officials said.
Acting on a complaint by Deepak Raja, 31, an analytics manager from Bangalore, DGCA examined the issue and found that wrongly depicted geographical boundaries of India were shown in a map in the magazine, which was also uploaded on the airline's website.
"I noticed the error during a flight from Bangalore to Goa on July 31 and again on a return flight on August 4. As my complaint to the airline crew was not taken seriously, I wrote to the DGCA chief on August 6 and the same was acted upon swiftly," Raja told Mirror.
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The airline, which was directed to comply with the order by 5 pm, informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that it had withdrawn all the copies of the magazine, Travel3sixty, from its flights and removed the map from the website, senior DGCA officials said.
Acting on a complaint by Deepak Raja, 31, an analytics manager from Bangalore, DGCA examined the issue and found that wrongly depicted geographical boundaries of India were shown in a map in the magazine, which was also uploaded on the airline's website.
"I noticed the error during a flight from Bangalore to Goa on July 31 and again on a return flight on August 4. As my complaint to the airline crew was not taken seriously, I wrote to the DGCA chief on August 6 and the same was acted upon swiftly," Raja told Mirror.
09/08/14 B angalore Mirror
