<span style="color: #222222;">Air India will completely ban use of plastic in Alliance Air and Air India Express from 2nd October. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Ashwani Lohani said this while addressing a workshop of Civil Aviation Correspondents in New Delhi today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Plastic tea cups will be replaced with sturdy paper cups and plastic tumblers will be replaced with paper tumblers.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The move follows a clarion call by Prime Minister Narendra to ban single use plastic during his Independence Day Address from the ramparts of Red Fort.    </span><br />''  <br />