Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao urged the airlines should give importance to local languages after a co-passenger of a women, who was denied XL seat for not knowing Hindi and English in a Hyderabad-bound IndiGo flight, took to Twitter about the discrimination made based on language.
KTR, as the minister is fondly called, suggested that it would be a win-win solution if the airline management recruits more staff who can speak the local languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada etc on regional routes. KTR responding to a Tweet, wrote, "Dear IndiGo management, I request you to start respecting local languages & passengers who may not be well conversant in English or Hindi. In regional routes, recruit more staff who can speak the local language like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada etc. This will be a win-win solution."
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The minister was responding to an IndiGo passenger, who took the issue to her Twitter. The Twitter user was onboard with a female passenger, who was denied an XL seat and was forced to take a normal seat because she could understand only Telugu and not English or Hindi in Indigo's Vijayawada to Hyderabad on Friday. And the attendant told it was a security issue.
The Twitter user, Devasmita also alleged that a flight from Andhra Pradesh to Telangana has no instructions in Telugu.