India, Nov. 19 -- The Delhi High Court (HC) on Tuesday asked the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) to show willful disobedience and non-compliance of the judicial order by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation for not fully implementing the new flight duty time limitation norms approved by the court earlier this year.

The court's query came after the counsel for FIP submitted that although the aviation regulator DGCA had undertaken before the High Court in April to implement the FDTL norms in a phased manner beginning from July 1 to November 1, it was not permitting several airlines, including Air India and SpiceJet, to deviate from the norms. "I understand if there is an issue of unreasonableness or discrimination but today you are ...