A case of Delta airline
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| Title: Mr First Name: Gurudatha Middle Name: xxxxx Last Name: Pai Suffix: Reply-To Email Address: g*****@gmail.com Airline Program: DL Frequent Flyer Number: xxxxx Address: xxxxxxx Address Line 2: City: Kirkland State/Province: WA Postal Code/Zip: xxxx Country: US Telephone Country Code: US Phone Number: xxx-xxx-xxxx Flight Date: 11/xx/2016 Flight Number: DL0035 Origin City: CDG Destination City: SEA Confirmation Number: AHSKRG Ticket Number: xxxxxxxxx Class of Travel: basic_economy Response Required: yes Message: Hello, I have a laundry list of complaints for this flight's in airport and in flight service. I almost had it with the crew of this airplane and wanted to speak to the cabin supervisor. The only reason not to do so was so as to not loose my piece of mind on a long trans-atlantic flight. 1. We were standing in line (my wife was with me on the same route with a separate ticket). We were pulled out of the line by rude person asking us why we were in line for check in without talking to him first. Then somebody else puts himself in the middle of this rude conversation to tell us that they are Delta's security team and had questions for us before checking in. Then I get asked if this was my first air travel! First of all, there is a better way to introduce oneself and then how am I supposed to know the private security Delta is working with and to check in with. 2. We were seated in the flight and asked the flight attendant (one mr. Mark) to "could you please get me a glass of water when you come around next time?" He looks at my water bottle on the seat and asks me "why? Don't you have water with you in that bottle?" Really? Is that a question to be asked in return for a request for a glass of water? Just so that you know, the bottle was empty, visibly, clearly crushed to be trashed. He brings me a glass in a couple of minutes. 3. Meal service - The lady on the right aisle-way brings us drinks and I request some wine and glass of club soda, no ice. She doesn't hear me and gives me water instead of club soda. 4. No problem, I see the service on the left. Mark is serving drinks and I ask him for club soda, no ice. Mark proceeds to observe that I have trashed the plastic cup he had given me water with earlier and gives a lecture about reusing the cup. He is then too busy making polite conversations with a young lady on the window seat in the same row. Unfortunately for me, he give a water again, not club soda and walks away. At this time, I am furious. I press the call button. After a many many minutes, the call light above me clears but nobody answers me. 5. The lunch service. The drinks service completely misses my wife who's sitting on my left on 17D. I press the call button again and nobody answers. I make it a point to walk back and let them know they missed serving her. A lady comes back and asks her what she wants - ginger beer. The lady comes back with a can and plastic cup and walks away, My wife, who is very strict about her diet learns after taking a sip that what was served to her was beer and not ginger beer. I press the call button again but I time it. It was 16 minutes and then the light above our head just clears without anybody answering us. I walk back again to tell them that they made a mistake again and gave her beer not ginger beer. I get another rude rhetoric comment - "what is it that she wants" - Ginger beer or ginger ale. They bring her that in the next few minutes. 6. The crew collects the trash etc. But doesn't recycle. And I wonder about the earlier lecture about reusing. I wonder if it was to impress the lady in the window seat that I was made party to a lecture on reusing plastic cups, or this was a subtle neglect since Delta staff did not like our presence among white passengers with a white crew. 7. The crew brings hot towels, again they forget to give it to us. I was asleep but my wife noticed that we seemed to be invisible to the crew, yet again. There is a reason for this point by point account of our experience. My wife had a similar experience on a separate delta flight where she perceived a sense of neglect if not anything else by the crew. See Case Number 21xxxxxx. Now, explain to me what I should do if such an experience repeats on a delta flight or assure me that these are isolated incidents and by chance happened in close proximity of one another. Also, assure me that this is not a Delta policy to neglect/question/criticize customer requests for water and drinks and racially profile customers at check-in counters. And for the love your own company, jobs and basic human principles don't just send me a bunch of miles and shut me up. Finally, I would like this complaint to be made available to the boss of customer experience and SkyMiles program. Thanks for your patience and willingness to read through this and hopefully you will bring it to the attention of the right individuals and the right levels. Submitted: Thu Nov 03 2016 07:07:44 GMT-0700 (PDT) ---------------------------------------- Reply #1: Nearly a month later From: Contact Delta ------------------------------- |
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