The Civil Aviation Minister, Shri Ajit Singh has directed the CMD, Air India to stop the Companion Free Scheme with immediate effect. This action was taken following the detection of irregularities.
The Vigilance Department of Air India earlier discovered serious irregularities and misuse of Companion Free Scheme (CFS) in Air India while scrutinizing the CFS data from October, 2011 to April, 2012, for tickets issued at Delhi Airport. In a sample of 332 CFS tickets issued at Delhi Airport Terminal-III, irregularities were found in 196 tickets, These irregularities include:-
1. CFS tickets have been issued without any full-fare ticket.
2. Main tickets were cancelled after issuance/use of CFS tickets.
3. For domestic CFS tickets the accompanying passenger should be spouse, child or parent – this stipulation has not been followed.
4. Main tickets and CFS tickets do not have the cross reference.
5. Outbound journey was not undertaken together by main and CFS ticket pax.
6. CFS tickets were issued on a sector different from the main ticket routing.
Similar irregularities have also been detected in the CFS tickets issued at Chandigarh where 435 tickets were scrutinized.
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