Air India Complaints & Reviews

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to formally lodge a complaint regarding the unfortunate experience I faced at Kolkata Airport on the 14th and 15th of October while traveling with Air India. The repeated cancellations of my flight AI 769 to Delhi on both days, combined with poor management at the airport, caused me significant inconvenience and a financial loss of 233.83 euros.

The issues I encountered are as follows:br...

Complaint in relation to Flights AI 282 Colombo to Delhi 23/9/24 Paid Seating 9 A & B AUD $ 60.20
Complaint in relation to Flight AI 302 Delhi to Sydney 23/9/24 Paid seating 11 H & J AUD $ 120.40.

Online check in confirmation email confirmed our flights and seat allocation as per our booking.

Checking officer at Columbo allocated us other seats for Columbo and Delhi Flights despite having our Air India booking tickets provided to him. On query he referred is to Mr J A Jayswickrama who initially told us he's fix it- than after speaking to someone on the phone told us we were too old! We are middle aged couple not old or infirmed in any way, much older and infirmed Indian people struggling to get out of their seats sat in other exit row seats. Thats a major safety issue in itself as they would not be able to assist in an emergency!
Allocating us 6A&B and 16 H&J . When we said that we were not happy with that he shrugged and told us to go away.

Fellow travelling companions sat in our 9A&B seats from Colombo!

On boarding in Delhi, we advised flight attendant that we had paid for the exit row seats as seat 11 J was vacant, other people sat in the other 2 seats and advised that they also had paid for those seats! The flight attendant did not offer the vacant seat to us (we had our booking conformation available) and gave it to a man who requested it!

Staff conduct is rude, discrimatory and unacceptable. I believe that we are owed a formal apology from Air India and a full refund for all 4 exit row seats I paid for.

I booked a return ticket with Air India from Toronto to Delhi and booked a bassinet seat for me and my infant baby with a nearby seat for my wife. The airlines changed my seat without any notifications to a seat which was completely away from my wife's seat and for the return journey removed me from my seat. The reason provided by airlines was that the aircraft was changed. But if the aircraft was changed, they should have kept the seats...

Hi, I would like to bring your attention to most horrible experience in flight AI- 162, I travelled to London Heathrow to Delhi with 2 kids who are 7 years and 5 years. Our seats were 18G, 18H and 18J.

Soon we got it we realised the TV screens were not working. I escalated to flight attendant, who politely told me that they are resetting and it will work. But it didn’t work for all three screens. Since it was quite long...

I booked a flight using my credit card for a friend coming on a group trip. We all had the same dates from 21 Aug to 11 Sept return airfare from New Zealand to Delhi. HOWEVER, the webpage to fill in credit card details does not ALSO SHOW FLIGHTS, so you cannot confirm they are correct. That webpage only asks for credit card info and to confirm those details. When u click 'confirm' for the details, the payment is taken and only afterwards you can see the flights booked. Mine were immediately wrong, out by a month (21 July to 11 Aug) and so for a dyslexic person this needs to be checked before being charged. I immediately opened a case file, and instead of 24hrs it took DAYS for anyone to respond. I even called that same day, a cost to me because there's no office in NZ, and they said it's free to change once but there's a penalty??! There was no fare difference, the flights were available, but they refused to do anything but charge me 240nzd (+12000INR) to change to the dates I actually wanted/needed. Terrible service, and no explanation. Not even a way to complain, so I am here. Booking reference: WEBZSP (Roger Kenneth Holding, passenger).

I have booked my flight from new delhi to washignton iad in june 2023 . In december 2023 i have changed the dates of flight to june 2024 and in may 2024 i have cancelled the flight. As per air india i provided them all the necessary details about account details and everything still they are not giving my refund back .
E ticket no. [protected]
pnr : wgb6or
case id : 06351141, 07955125
refund amount : $1500

I am reaching out to you on behalf of my husband, Gaurav Kwatra, and my mother-in-law, Sunita Kwatra who are in Kochi for my mother-in-law’s medical treatment.

On 14 June 2024, they were scheduled to fly with Air India from New Delhi to Kochi (PNR 5CGKVN). The purpose of their trip was my mother-in-law's medical treatment.

Due to my mother-in-law's osteoporosis and her tendency to fall while walking, she required...

Dear Sirs,

I unfortunately had an awful experience traveling with Air India recently. I was due to fly from Mumbai to Heathrow on 29th May 2024 however that flight was initally delayed by 3 hours and then cancelled.

No one ever bother to many any clear announcements and given we were due to fly out at 2pm we didn’t actually get to a hotel till 12am. All that time was spent in the airport all because we were simply ignored and not informed about what was happening. Once the hotel was agreed, a further wait for up to 3 hours outside the airport as they only put on 2 coaches for 300+ passengers. No queuing or organisation at all.

All requests for compensation have been rejected by Air India

We landed in mumbai from coimbatore at 11.15 PM yesterday night, we forgot to collect on black bag from baggage belt, nobody is helping on airport to collect the same.

My wife is standing in airport since 3 hours now.

I had booked a ticket to travel from Bombay to Leh on 27th of April via Paytm with the booking ID: [protected]. The flight was scheduled to take off on 11th May at 12.40 AM. However, even after reaching the airport at 10PM on the 10th of May, I was not allowed to board the aircraft at the baggage checkin counter. The staff at the Bombay airport informed me that they could not find the details of the flight listed on my ticket. I was later...

Dear Sir my booking reference is TQ6U6V. I had reached out to customer care for the correction of the gender of my wife on her ticket to read as Mrs Neera Channan instead of Mr Neera Channan. As we are traveling on 26 May 24 by AI 127, I hope we are not harassed at the airport. Kindly help resolve this issue.
Kind regards
Lt Col Manoj K Channan, Retd
[protected]
[protected]@gmail.com

I booked my tickets as per Aadhar card and Pan card where my name is split into first name and Last name . In my passport my first name contain bothe the names and there is no last name.
To my request to make correction, I am asked to pay $448 and differential fare of $300.
I respect policies but here policy is being used as an opportunity to charge more from a senior citizen pensioner who is feeling like cheated and harassed. I have my wife on the same ticket and my daughter under different ticket but on the same flight on 13th May and there is no way I can cancel this travel. Request Airline with Indian heart to be more humane and consider my request to make correction.

Case Id:04244217
Trip: EWR-MUM-EWR
Date: March 29 and April 7

I was indeed given the correct seat numbers that i paid for, however that in NOT the issue.

The issue is that the seats that were selected at the time of checkin were in a 2 seat configuration with no other seats around them. However the actual seats that we were provided were in a 3 seat configuration. If during seat selection, the actual 3 seat configuration would have been displayed, i would not have paid extra for these seats.

Therefore, what was promised, was not provided thus i do believe i am entitled to a full refund.

An additional point to note is that the actual seat configuration displayed online during seat selection was different to the actual seat configuration in the aircraft. Many other passengers were also disappointed at this situation, who had also paid extra.

In the seat configuration displayed online there was an isle on the left and right of 27B and 27C. This was the 2 seat configuration that i am referring to. Therefore, I paid extra for these seats.

Additional feedback to Air India: If you look at the attached, visually it appears that the left center seat has an isle next to it. The confirmation screen isn’t always looked at carefully by any passenger. However, this is NOT the issue I am complaining about.

The row itself that I got was much more behind the aircraft than it was shown according to the seat map. This happened during both Ewr-mum and mum-ewr legs.

I can assure you, I selected the seat during my mum-ewr led at the air India counter at the Mumbai airport. I selected a front row but the actual seat was not in the front row within economy.

I immediately complained to the commercial staff…..they even acknowledged the mistake.

Dear Team,

I have booked Air India tickets from Mangaluru to Mumbai - Mumbai to Muscat. on the 29th of April for some reason, the Air India flight was canceled and i have booked the return tickets as well on the 18th of May

Here is the PNR And Ticket numbers PNR 6G43M8 & E-Ticket [protected] & [protected]

Now without our knowledge, they book a flight from Mumbai to Muscat from Air India express PNR WVHYGL

after discussing with both the Air India and ixigo c.c teams ixi go, team requires a letter from Air India for full refund, and Air India as given a letter to submit to the ixigo team and get the full refund without any charges if we request to book the tickets there should not be any extra charges so please check and call me back to this number +[protected] or email me on [protected]@gmail.com we have been calling you and air India from 2 days and there is no proper response there is no other chance to talk to the ixigo team we spend lots of money calling customer care I need compensation on this and a better flight tickets without more layovers

Hello,

I’ve contacted Air India multiple times for the refund on my cancelled ticket since 3yrs. They always say that they will process it within a week and I will get an email about the refund. But nothing happened. I should receive around Rs. 100000 on my card. But they are not helping me. My cancelled ticket is[protected]
I’m even attaching the screenshot of the email I received from them confirming that I will receive the refund in 2021. But no response after that. They are not even replying.

Me and my husband had boarded flight of Air India on 14th of april 2024 from mangalore to Mumbai and on 15th we had a connecting flight of Air India from Mumbai to Delhi and Delhi to Amsterdam. We had altogether 5 baggage and the staff of Air India informed us that we cannot carry all the baggage as we were allowed only 4 but then we paid for the 5th baggage amounting to 15000 rupees but as we reached Amsterdam airport we received only 4 baggage and one was missing and we filed property irregularity report and its been 3days we havent heard back from Air India and being in Netherlands I'm trying to contact Indian Air India number but its not even getting connected i tried everything from my end and its all in vain i have mos important stuffs in that baggage but still they are not helping us out and even i paid for that baggage!

Dear sir
i sent a request for compensation following a flight disruption
i had a reply on march 1st, i was registered under case ID 03393877
beforehand i had provided a letter giving all the details of my disrupted flight
Having no news since i sent about 10 messages to Airindia customer support.Each time i was told i had to write where i had first written, i kept going round in circles.Iwas also told to go on existing check status which i did and to my horror it says this case is closed! no date, no satisfactory reply from the company
i want the company to reopen case id 03393877 and look at the letter i sent and keep me inform of what is being done,
yours sincerely
a.Breillot

email provided for this ID : [protected]@yahoo.fr

BHASKARRAY DESAI - FLIGHT - AI864. BOM-DELHI-SFO.

HARRESSEMENT TO SENIOR CITIZEN SINGLE TRAVELLER. MIS-INFORMATION ABOUT AIR INDIA BAGGAGE ELIGIBILITY - ITINERARY.

I am a single parent senior citizen. On 19th March, 2024 I reached Air India counter at Terminal 2 of Mumbai International Airport. My printed Itinerary was clearly showing entitlement of free 2 Baggage of 23kg. each. My Travel Agent double confirmed with Air India Customer Service that I was entitled for free 2 Baggage of 23 kg. each free. I was astonished at Airport Air India counter, when I was informed that I was entitled for only 1 Baggage of 23 kg. as per Air India's Computer screen which was not available to me till I reach at Air India Counter. I had downloaded my Itinerary from Air India Official website only. Copy enclosed for ready reference. Air India Counter Assistant Mr. Shayad and Duty Manager Mr. Praveen Adhav were adamanent for allowing me 1 Baggage only. I was instructed to contact my original Airline-Lufthansa Airline at 3:30 am midnight as Air India was obliging me to carry in their Flight. I have requested to send email on my registered email confirming Air India's inability to carry 2nd Bag despite Air India's itinerary clearly showing entitlement of 2 baggage, which Duty Manager Mr. Praveen Adhav has pretended to sent and confirm about sending of email but I have not received any email till today. Despite of all my request as Senior Citizen and wastage of valuable time at mid-night, they harrased me to the extant that I was left with no alternative but to compel to call one of my relative (not family member) to Airport Departure Gate at about 4:00am mid night to take back my second Bag to my home, as I am staying alone in India. My 50% medicines for Hypertension, Diabetes, thyroid and other general ailments were left over in the said Bag in India and now I am short of medicines for about 3 months in USA. This is apathy of Tata Airline owned Air India.
I most humbly request Air India to pay damages for mental trouma and harrasement to senior citizen at midnight without any fault of mine.

I hope Tata will honour it's tradition of Customer first in real practical terms. Mahatma Gadhiji said Customer is always right. What Tata Airline say?

Waiting for justice from TATA.

Bhaskarray Desai
[protected]@yahoo.co.in
Note : I reserve my right to give complaint to AERA, Mumbai International Airport, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Consumer redressal Court and all concerned authorities till I get justice.

Someone offered me for a airport job ansed money inonline i paid 35500/-, now there phone is switched off kinldy help me .onemore thing im already completed in legal forum. the team contacted me. thre are also asked money for case file i paid 2359/-..they said its takes 20days time now one month over but not updated me, now asking document charges 1700/-.kindly help me

Even though I checked in online, I arrived at Kempegowda International Airport Terminal 2 gate no D13 one minute before the boarding gate's scheduled closing time, which, as per rules, is 20 mins before departure of the flight. The departure was at 9:10 PM, and I arrived at the gate at 8:49, so by law, I was a minute before the scheduled closure time. They called me repeatedly to check the status, and I informed them I was already on my way. Despite being there a minute before, they denied boarding, saying the check-in counter called to notify them we shouldn't be allowed to board. This caused me a lot of trouble to face. I request you to kindly check with the camera and everything to confirm the facts. I would like you to take action against Air India for overbooking the flight and not allowing passengers to board.