Rat wanted to fly to Dubai, Air India was its choice

A very loyal rat is flying internationally only on Air India.

If you ever get on this Air India Dreamliner flight, brace up for an annoying co-passenger. A patriotic and loyal rat has been travelling to different countries on only Air India. Such is his loyalty that even after repeated fumigations and rat traps for at least four days, pest controllers haven't been able to shoo him away.
It has disrupted the flight at least thrice in a month, the last instance on Saturday. The rat has been going places - from Melbourne to Delhi to Singapore and Dubai.
It had earlier forced diversion of a Melbourne-Delhi Air India (AI) flight to Singapore, local media reported. An Air India official told TOI:

When the aircraft was diverted to Singapore last Saturday, passengers were deplaned. After that the plane (VT-ANV) was taken to a remote bay at Changi Airport. We got the local pest control agencies there to lay glue boxes there. These boxes are checked every four hours to see if the rodent has been trapped.

Even after fumigation, Singapore officials spotted the rat on and off. The aircraft was then flown to Delhi for another round of fumigation. Later, the plane made a trip to Dubai. Finally the rat trap treatment continued in Mumbai.
An AI official told TOI, "The aircraft is now (Tuesday night) in Mumbai where it is getting the final round of fumigation. From Wednesday VT-ANV will fly to its regular destinations."
He went on to say that the rat probably came from a catering truck. "We are doing a one-time pest treatment on the entire fleet. The Central Warehousing Corp will put rat glue boxes on some planes," he added.
It is not Air India's first rat incident. In January this year, one of their aircraft was forced to turn back during its journey from Mumbai to London. Then again, another Air India flight was forced to return to New Delhi while flying to Milan last year in July.
Should Air India now rely on the rat-catching skills of a CAT to check this menace? Meanwhile, suggestions are abuzz on twitter.

"Rat on board Maharaja" again. Disgrace to Air India. Will the Aviation Minister justify the lapses ?
- Majeed Memon (@advmajeedmemon) April 17, 2016

A very nationalistic and loyal rat flying international flights on only Air India pic.twitter.com/EAxp8CSZUc
- subba iyer (@SubbaramanIyer) April 17, 2016

@timesofindia
Who in TOI or Air India can tell which rat is a resident n which one is tourist anyway ??.
Is there a separate dept. for that
- Sleepy BUM ® (@Sleeepybum) April 16, 2016

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