Hello, Customer Service Manager Indigo,
I am Deepti Nagulapati and here is my harrowing story of traveling back with indigo from Port Blair to Hyderabad.
PNR: UK6WFS (HYD to Port Blair round-trip)
Onward Journey: March 14th 2022 as per schedule.
Return journey: March 20th 2022.
Timeline of Activities
On 19th March 2022 - We received a call at 8:02 pm ( automated call) saying that our flight from IXZ to HYD has been canceled.
March 19th, 2022- 9:02 pm - We called Indigo customer service. The customer service rep told us that there were no flights on March 20th or 21st and no flights flying out of Port Blair until March 26th, 2022. The prospect of being stuck in Port Blair in the cyclone Asani was extremely scary and Indigo was of no help. We requested to be routed through any other city out of Port Blair and the agent said multiple times there were no flights.
NOTE: HE NEVER MENTIONED NO SEATS, HE ONLY MENTIONED NO FLIGHTS.
March 20th -I was on a call for 1 hour with the agent requesting him to put us on any flight to any city in India and he denied again and told us our flights were canceled.
We went ahead and booked Air India as we were going to be stuck in the cyclone to Kolkata paying 1.02 lakhs one way to Kolkata and checked into Lemon tree hotel, Port Blair. While at the Lemon tree in the evening we got to know that many passengers were able to fly into Chennai and Kolkata and Indigo was indeed flying on 21st. We immediately called Indigo Customer Service again and they said there were no seats this time.
I RAISED A REQUEST TO GO THROUGH THE RECORDING OF WHAT WAS TOLD BY THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT AS UNTIL NOW THEY TOLD US NO FLIGHTS WERE OPERATING AND NOW WE WERE BEING TOLD “FLIGHTS ARE OPERATING ON 21st BUT NO SEATS”.
MARCH 21st 2022- I made a call at 5am again to Indigo requesting them to provide me any option so that I can cancel my expensive Air India flight and was told “Sorry we cannot”.
At that point we went to the airport and spoke to Ms. Alisha - Indigo rep at the airport who told me I should have come to the airport rather than phone and she booked all passengers till 4 pm on 20th march for 21st march flights( here I spent hours with the agent on phone). She also told me I should be compensated for this loss as Indigo did not help me and I was flying to Kolkata at my own expense.
I reached out to the customer desk, indigo again in Kolkata to help me with a flight to Hyd and in Vain. I was also told indigo deducted a cancellation fee of rs.3500 per ticket for no fault of mine and the agent said they were going to reimburse it.
Overall, I spent 1.34 lakhs(1.02 Air India to Kolkata and from there to Hyd) for 4 tickets to get out of Port Blair due to a lack of response from the Indigo agent .
INDIGO REPS BLATANTLY LIED THAT THERE WAS NO FLIGHT ON MARCH 21st, FOR NO FAULT OF MINE, I HAD TO PAY A HEAVY PRICE TO REACH BACK TO HYD. I EXPECT INDIGO TO TAKE CARE OF THIS AND REIMBURSE ME, failing which will be pursuing the matter legally and through consumer forums.
I can share all boarding passes as needed.
Thanks,
Deepti Nagulapati
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May 8, 2022
Complaint marked as Resolved
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Verified Support
Apr 01, 2022
IndiGo Customer Care's response Ma'am,
We apologize for the inconvenience caused. This is not the experience we wanted to provide.
We believe one of our senior representatives reached out to you and addressed your concern in the best possible way. We believe our representative tried assisting you with a full refund as well as vouchers as a goodwill gesture.
Please contact our customer care team OR write to us at customer.[protected]@goindigo.in for more assistance.
We look forward to your kind understanding.
Regards,
Team IndiGo
We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. We sincerely request you to reach out to with us PNR details via Twitter/Facebook DM so we can check and assist you in the best possible way.
You may also reach out to our customer care team OR write to us at customer.[protected]@goindigo.in for more assistance. We look forward to your kind understanding.
Regards
Team IndiGO