The gay code assigned to Bihar’s style airport “inappropriate, not suitable, offensive / embarrassing”, parliamentary panels have said and asked the government to change it to the yag or other suitable alternatives.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) provides airport codes that can be seen when booking tickets.
IATA represents around 290 airlines in 120 countries carrying 83% of world air traffic.
Airline Air India members have marked an agent about the “inappropriate” code for the holy city in Bihar, but an international body “expressed his inability to change” it.
Last January, the Public Undertakings Committee (COPU) in his first report, the parliamentary report recommended a change because “the locals may feel offensive or embarrassing” that their city “was recognized in the international community with the name of the gay code”.
The committee also found it “inappropriate”.
The 10th report of Coku about the airline ministry in the second parliament of the house earlier this month cited the government’s actions taken in the code.
IATA said to the Air India that “the location code is considered permanent and a strong justification, especially about air safety needs to be given” to make changes.
IATA also said the Gay style airport code has been used since “airstrip style operationalization” and therefore cannot be changed “for no reason that can be justified primarily regarding air safety”, according to the committee.
Appreciate Indian air for its efforts, parliamentary panels emphasize that the government must “take problems with IATA because this problem involves naming our city airport code”.