| Address: West Delhi, Delhi |
Dear Mr. Dr. Mallya,
With reference to the above noted subject, I would like to draw your kind attention to the harassment meted out to me and my family by your esteemed Kingfisher Airlines officers.
Facts of the case:
I, Naveen Goel, AVP in M/s Earth Infrastructures Ltd., Delhi, had booked 7 tickets on 24/09/2011 in your airlines through goibibo.com for travel from Mumbai to Delhi on travel date 05/12/2011 (Flight No IT319 , PNR Nos. EWSTRB, NMLYOH,DCDHTU,HEFIEF).
Later on due to constrained of time my travelling plan changed and I made a request to your airlines directly through a telephonic call on 01/11/2011 for rescheduling of tickets to 30/01/2012 instead of 05/12/2011 which your executive did and guided me to get fresh tickets. I have been told by your company executive that the Check-in staff will demand to pay the amount of Rs 50 /- each towards rescheduling charges at the time of actual travelling, for which I agreed.
On 30/01/2012, the day of flight, to the utter surprise I was asked at the Check-in counter that your system is showing that the amount of ticket of my wife Ms. Manju Goel (vide PNR No. HEFIEF) has already been refunded. It came as a shock to me as I had never asked for refund of ticket. I was then forced by the check-in staff to purchase a new ticket for my wife or else she will not be able to board the flight. As the travel was o[censored]tmost importance to me, I was informed that I need to pay Rs. 4,235/ for a new ticket of my wife. As the flight was about to depart, I had no other option but to buy the new ticket. I asked for a receipt of the payment but the airlines personnel at Check-in counter informed that it will take time to generate the receipt and flight is about to depart. He informed me that I can collect the receipt from Delhi airport. I had no other option and also keeping the convenience of other passengers on board I accepted it at that time. When I landed at Delhi Airport, I went to your airlines counter and got the receipt.
I made a call to your Customer Care Centre on toll free number[protected] at 7.15 pm on 31/01/2012 and discussed the matter with your executive Mr. Raghav. After keeping me on hold for nearly 40 minutes, I was informed that money was wrongly charged and I am entitled for compensation. He informed me that he had escalated the matter to the concerned department and i will receive a call from the concerned department within 24 hours. However, no request number was provided to me even on repeated request. Since then even 41 hours have passed till the time of writing this mail and I have not received any call. You can see another example of negligence and disrespect of the matter by the staff of your esteemed organization.
Grievances
Due to the above incident and chain of events it is proven gross mistakes, negligence, poor customer service and lack of sincerity by your employees, following are my grievances which requires your kind attention for redressal from your good office and seek your intervention :-
1. How a refund was made when I had not asked for it?
2. Tickets for my wife Ms. Manju Goel and my minor daughter Ms Mihika Goel was booked under same PNR (HEFIEF) but my wife's ticket was cancelled and my minor daughter's ticket was rescheduled.?? As per Airlines Rule, a minor or and infant can only be travelled with an adult. Why such kind of gross error occurred?
3. I was even asked to contact goibibo.com for the refund. This is devoid of any logic and reasonableness as rescheduling and even extra payment at airport was taken by your Airlines.
4. Should a person expect the kind of services from your esteemed organization that even after 42 hours of my call, no body from your company is bothered to call me !!
5. By such ill-treatment I alongwith my family members suffered irreparable mental harassment, mental agony, disrespect, insult, anxiety by your esteem airline staff. Damages should be paid for the negligence caused to us.
Dear Mr Dr. Malya,
I being AVP of an esteemed organization wasting precious time of mine and my company by involving in communicating and writing for explanation in the matter. In return I should be given a good compensation apart of refund of extra fare wrongly charged by your airline.
Dear sir, we have a great regard on you being a reputed entrepreneur of the country and always expect good services from your organizations under your dynamic leadership. We just hope that you will always take care that this type of issues should not happen so that the there should not be any damage of image and goodwill of your esteemed organizations.
Thanking you,
Naveen Goel
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Aug 13, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
Kingfisher Airlines — Reservation
Hello Sir/MamI am to fly from hyderbad to patna on 27th may and return on 31st may, regarding which I was trying to book tickets yesterday (08.03.2010) from your airline which was costing me Rs. 8563 (approx).
This was the first time I was to travel with your airline.
But the experience was very annoying....While I was booking tickets (from 11.13 am to 11.28 am on 08.03.2010) I gave all necessary and required information and proceeded through step1, step2 and step3 and submitted the payment details ( since I was paying from debit card, i gave card no., CVV no., pin code and master card authentication password).
But I dont know for what reason the transaction was failed (the net speed I use is 1 Gbps, so not my net connection problem) and no there was no deduction from my account as well.
I tried thrice and when not successful and thought of trying today (09.03.2010)again.
But today morning when I was about to retry booking ticket I found that the prices are gone up by approx. Rs. 2500.
Had the transaction successful yesterday, I would not have to pay Rs. 2500.
So, I request you people to first verify whether I am telling right or wrong and in case I am true then allow me to book ticket at yesterday's price, in the absence of which I am afraid I may have to cancel my trip and will end up having a bitter experinece from Kingfisher Airlines.
(I contacted call center agents four times but they were not helpful except for last call who gave me the email ID where I can Complaint. Instead of looking into the matter deeply, they were simply either blaming me for not contacting agents or were busy in telling me company's policy of flexible fare policy. That I also know that prices can vary anytime but I would have agreed upon this if I would have not tried booking tickets before today, when I am saying that I tried yesterday when prices were down but was failed due to your site problem, why should I pay for that fault which I have not conducted)