New Delhi: Embarrassment continues for Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad with Air India cancelling the Sena leader's Mumbai-Delhi ticket on Tuesday.


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Gaikwad had booked a seat on flight AI 806 from Mumbai to Delhi for tomorrow through his staff which was promptly cancelled by the airline.


This was followed by another attempt to book a seat on AI 551 from Hyderabad to Delhi, again for tomorrow, which was cancelled, too.


Both these bookings were made on open tickets which were issued to Gaikwad, before the ban was imposed on him, a AI source said, as per PTI.


The airline is now ascertaining how many open tickets and frequent flyer tickets have been issued to the MP from Osmanabad in Maharashtra so that those could be cancelled, the source said.


Gaikwad, who had on Thursday abused and assaulted a 60-year-old duty manager of the national carrier with slippers over not being able to fly business class despite having boarded an all-economy Pune-New Delhi flight, has been put on their no-fly list.


Besides Air India, the airlines which won't allow Gaikwad to fly as FIA members are IndiGo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and Go Air. AirAsia and Vistara, which are not with FIA, have also joined them.


Earlier, Gaikwad asserted that Air India was trying to misguide everyone as to what actually caused the altercation onboard the aircraft. Gaikwad mainiatned that he never demanded a Business Class seat, but had instead requested a complaint book to address his grievance about 'substandard service'.


The Osmanabad MP after being blacklisted by the top airlines boarded a train to Mumbai earlier on Friday evening.


(With Agency inputs)