{"id":66180,"date":"2020-05-08T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=66180"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:25:47","slug":"video-from-pak-viral-as-air-india-flight-flouts-social-distancing-norms-overcharges-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-pak-viral-as-air-india-flight-flouts-social-distancing-norms-overcharges-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from Pak viral as Air India flouts social distancing norms, overcharges passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> users have shared a two-minute video which shows passengers in a commercial aircraft confronting the airline staff. A man can be heard saying that despite charging three times the usual fare the airlines is not following social distancing norms. If social media claims are to be believed this incident happened in an Air India flight.<\/p>\n

Facebook user Praveen Kumar Prabhakar posted the video and pointed out that there was no provision for an empty seat between two passengers. It has been shared over 400 times (archive link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Air India charged 3 times the fare, in the name of “social distancing”. But the passengers didn’t get even a single seat empty between them.
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Posted by Praveen Kumar Prabhakar<\/a> on\u00a0Thursday, May 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Indian National Congress member Sumit Yaduwanshi also posted the viral video however he didn’t claim the incident took place in an Air India flight. This tweet was retweeted over 170 times before he took it down (archive link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a keyword search on Facebook and found that the viral video was uploaded on April 27 by the Facebook page The Citizen Of Pakistan<\/a>. According to the video description, the incident occurred in a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight. The video uploaded by The Citizen Of Pakistan sports a logo of Times of Karachi (ToK), a Pakistan-based news platform. <\/span><\/span>Alt News searched for the video on ToK’s social media but could not find it. It seems like the clip has been deleted.<\/p>\n

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We performed another keyword search, this time on YouTube, and found that on April 26 GNN, a Pakistan-based news channel, reported the incident in question. According to the report, the fight was from Toronto to Islamabad. The confrontation happened because the airlines charged more but still filled the flight as usual.<\/p>\n