[Resolved]  MakeMyTrip — Worst Travel Agent (makemytrip.com) and Customer Service Experience EVER!

All,

The experience I have had with makemytrip folks has been by far the worst ever customer service that I have experienced or heard of! I must've talked to about 8 different support individuals at makemytrip.com over 28 hours period, on the phone most of the time, and to my amazement none of them focused on addressing the original request of reissuing the ticket and getting a new e-ticket number in a timely manner.


I can't help but believe that all these folks I talked to at makemytrip.com were incompetent in reissuing a new e-ticket number, but I'm also very tempted to believe that there was some other internal policy that encouraged all these folks to refrain from providing a new e-ticket number... all this for some personal gain at the expense of the customer - my mother in this particular case! It's a shame that it took about 28 hours for the 8+ folks at their end to simply reissue the ticket and provide a new e-ticket number, despite numerous requests from myself and the ticketing agents to provide the same! Makemytrip.com has deeply troubled my mother and I doubt she will ever be comfortable traveling international again. All the other family members and friends have also been concerned with all this to the extent that we will definitely not do or recommend anybody to do business with makemytrip.

I thought it necessary to let the world know of the impression makemytrip has imprinted on one customer and their family and friends. It's a shame that such companies are thriving despite their incompetency and total disregard to the customer whose money they are building their lives off of.

If there are zero changes to your originally issued ticket, you may be fine, but if there is any change, and you need assistance from makemytrip.com, they will most likely put you through hell!!!

Below is my email to Customer Care at makemytrip.com, to which they conveniently decided not to respond or comment on, but I'm not surprised.

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Dear Customercare (@makemytrip.com),

I am providing you feedback on my experience with the makemytrip[protected].

I had purchased a round-trip ticket from makemytrip.com for my mother to travel from India to visit me in the US. On the day of her originally scheduled return (Dec 2, 2009) from Portland (PDX) to Vishakhapatnam (VTZ), all her flights were confirmed. At the time of check-in at the PDX airport on Dec. 2nd, we were told at the ticketing counter that they were unable to view or print the ticket due to the following message on their computer: "9W ETKT - Display restricted by 9W".

The ticketing agent told us that the ticket needed to be "re-issued" and they needed a "new e-ticket number" to resolve the issue. They called makemytrip.com and I also called makemytrip.com separately to request the same. We had about 2 hours before the flight departure, but unfortunately the makemytrip folks did not reissue the ticket as requested and my mother missed the original flight. There was another flight a couple hours later the same day and I hoped that we could get a new eticket number at least by then, but again makemytrip folks failed to do that. In the process, to my amazement, while most others were relatively polite, one of the female representatives at makemytrip actually hung up the phone on the ticketing agent in frustration! The effect of this incompetence was not on the ticketing agent, but on the customer - my mother. After several hours on the phone and after missing the 2nd flight, I requested the tickets be reissued for the next day and was clearly told by them that they will provide me the new e-ticket number.

We went home and I was on the phone with makemytrip.com for several more hours the rest of the day, asking for the reissued ticket and the new eticket number. In the end, the schedule was changed to the next day with LH752 waitlisted, but I was provided with the exact same e-ticket number as the one that had caused the issue in the beginning. The next morning, before heading out to the airport I asked them and they confidently said that there will be no issues and that I should go to the airport and then check-in, rather than attempting to check-in online at home. I reached the airport a couple hours earlier than the flight again. To my disappointment, the issue from the previous day was still not resolved. The ticketing agent again clearly stated that they needed a new e-ticket number. I passed on this message again very clearly to makemytrip folks, but unfortunately despite repeatedly mentioning that my mother is old and traveling on wheelchair assistance, and couldn't stay legally in the US another day, they still did not issue a new eticket number and she again missed the scheduled flight. I then asked them to let me speak with their supervisor, but they wouldn't let me. Finally, after much more time, one of the supervisors called me gave me a new e-ticket number for a different flight the same day. This resolved the original issue and the ticketing agent could now print the ticket. However, the time between the connecting flights in Frankfurt was not enough and my mother missed the connecting flight from Frankfurt. She had no choice but to be seated in wheelchair with no food or any other assistance from the airline for another 24 hours. On top of that, when she reached Shamshabad, she was asked to pay for the ticket to VTZ 'cause they couldn't find her reservation. I called the airlines directly and got this resolved in the end.

The experience I have had with makemytrip folks has been by far the worst ever customer service that I have experienced or heard of! I must've talked to about 8 different support individuals at makemytrip.com over 28 hours period, on the phone most of the time, and to my amazement none of them focused on addressing the original request of reissuing the ticket and getting a new e-ticket number in a timely manner. I can't help but believe that all these folks I talked to at makemytrip.com were incompetent in reissuing a new e-ticket number, but I'm also very tempted to believe that there was some other internal policy that encouraged all these folks to refrain from providing a new e-ticket number... all this for some personal gain at the expense of the customer - my mother in this particular case! It's a shame that it took about 28 hours for the 8+ folks at their end to simply reissue the ticket and provide a new e-ticket number, despite numerous requests from myself and the ticketing agents to provide the same! What the supervisor did after 28 hours is what should've been done right from the beginning. Makemytrip.com has deeply troubled my mother and I doubt she will ever be comfortable traveling international again. All the other family members and friends have also been concerned with all this to the extent that we will definitely not do or recommend anybody to do business with makemytrip.

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