Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Thanks to Saravana stores – Timetables are back in MRTS stations

For the past few months, the MRTS stations in Chennai were devoid of timetables (for a month or so). Being a recent regular traveler , I found it very difficult while waiting for trains.
Now, saravana stores has placed new timeboards on all stations. I am sure many a commuter will be thankful.

King fisher losing senior passengers flying out of Mumbai due to lack of elevators

In mumbai, the kingfisher terminal is in 1A. There are no elevators in this terminal and all passengers have to climb two floors of stairs for the check-in counter.
After the ticketing, passengers climb down the two stairs (escalators are present) to board the aircraft.

I know of senior citizen passengers who refused to fly by KF after one experience with the climbing and made their booking in Jet Airways.

I like King fisher airlines for their good service. KingFisher are you listening?

If elevators are indeed present in 1A terminal and I had missed them, please add comments so that it is helpful to all
p.s. the same terminal is also used by Air India.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Indian airlines defies time, cheats and gets away with it

If you are booking flight IC971 from Chennai to Mumbai - read this!
I booked a tkt on IC971 from Chennai to Mumbai - scheduled departure from MAA 7.00 a.m. If you search in IA site- you will see that the scheduled departure is 7.00 a.m.
Once I went to the airport, the IA staff told that the flight is rescheduled to 10.00 and if required I can get a full refund. Well, I had to book another ticket on Jet Airways as the matter required some urgency.
The IC971 left by around 9.00 a.m.
Later I found out that the flight IC972 from mumbai to Chennai is "Scheduled" to arrive at 8.50 - i.e its regular expected time is 8.50 a.m.
Since IC972 is the one returned as IC971, and its scheduled arrival at chennai is 8.50, how can IA sell tickets for 7.00 a.m and put customers to hardships?
Did any of you face the same issue or am I missing something?