My name is Chandrawadini Pandurangan from Bradford, I recently travelled with your airlines from London Heathrow to Hyderabad in India on the 5th of June 2022 on flight number AI 148 and my ticket number is[protected].
I checked in myself online on the 4th of June 2022 and during the process I updated all the details which includes choosing the seat and meal preference and updating the travel document information as seen in the document attached.
On the day of travel, I was at the airport 3 hours earlier so that I can complete all the process of checking in and dropping my luggage. The staff at counter was not person centred has had no courtesy too to welcome passengers. The flight was due to start at 9:40am UK standard time the boarding took place on time however the flight was stranded for more than 1.5 hours without much update. During this period no beverages were supplied at last the flight took off at 10:30 am UK standard time.
When the flight was in air all the entertainment system were down the seat was not clean most of the plastics were broken. The stewards tried their best to rest the onboard entertainment system without no luck. We were then supplied with the breakfast, I have very clearly mentioned when checking online my seat and meal preferences which was not actioned. The meal was served and after having a few bites of the food I realised I was supplied with Non vegetarian meal instead of a Hindu vegetarian meal which is not only deficiency in the service but also sin in the eye of God. I am really shocked with this incident, The flight steward after realising was apologetic and reported that the previous steward who provided me with alternative seats has not updated her about the meal preferences but this was truly pathetic service.
I come from Hindu religion, and I follow my strict vegetarian diet. I felt sick knowing that I have been fed non vegetarian meal and I feel like my religious practice has been strongly violated by disrespecting my religion and made me eat non vegetarian meal.
I have travelled with Air India before and other airlines and there was no packaging or writing to differentiate a vegetarian meal from a non-vegetarian meal on the food which is unusual but as a passenger we totally rely on the airlines staff to respect our belief on supplying the right food that I requested but feels like the staff members didn’t check the meal before serving it to me and gave us non-veg food.
I urge you to launch a fully comprehensive review of the quality of services offered in your flights taking into considerations and I also trust that you are going to deal with the complaint in strict manner while taking all the necessary measures to make sure hat such incidents do not happen again . I am confident that you are not thrilled with receiving complaint letters from your passengers so do something about it.
I never had this problem before in my life, and this mistake I believe must be on the airline itself.
I have return ticket to travel back to UK with my mum accompanying me on 30th June and I am dreading to travel with yourself because of my recent experience
I feel that because of this distressing experience and inconvenience caused, especially when I since you had the contractually obligation to hold and provide the right meal as requested, I feel would like to request refund for the tickets as compensation as I feel I am entitled to this compensation. I hope you accept my request and looking forward to hearing back from you.
Email address [protected]@yahoo.com
Address 39 Fairfax Avenue
Bradford
BD4 6JY
Air India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.