Why people avoid travelling by AI
flights?
Several passengers have
complained of bed bugs in the Business Class of Air India flights over the past week. The airline has taken up
fumigation of the aircraft to tackle the menace. One passenger had to take
medication for rashes that she developed due to the bug bites. She is now
covered with painful bites all over her arms, forearms, legs, ankles, back, neck
and abdomen.
This is a health and safety
violation. It is nothing but callousness, affecting the prestige of our
country. It tarnishes the image of India and also its people. The airline
should be sued for compensation. At least somebody complained about it. This
might have happened before also but people don’t dare to complain or they leave
it just like that.
The airline should give financial
compensation and an apology to those affected by their carelessness. It’s a gross
apathy. That is why public sector enterprises failed, are failing and will
fail. Air India is no exception. And the government wants to revive Air India.
By travelling in Air India business
class you give business to doctors and hospitals too. That's
Maharaja. Business for all. That could be the reason why no one is interested
to buy air India.
This is what happens when the
government runs organisations. Similar is the case with government offices and
the plight of most of the branches of nationalised banks. This may be why the
employees protest. It is a happy go lucky life. If you pull up the cleaning
staff, you have to get ready to face a strike fully supported by the unions and
of course the opposition.
The airline authorities should keep
the airline clean for the Indian Ministers, MPs, MLAs, and bureaucrats, then
only will it become a clean airline. Because the above category will not let it
be privatised and the Air India staff be held accountable. It's white elephant
of Indian Govt. It's making losses & Govt. pays it with hard earned money
of common people.
Sad that one has to suffer and
lodge a formal complaint for what should really be a routine exercise - to
fumigate and ensure procedures of cleanliness. Maharaja is symptomatic of many
of our ‘Chalta Hai’ mentality - let's all constructively deal with lethargy of
Indian psyche
Hope the Air India officials take
preemptive steps to eradicate the bug menace and other inconvenience. Air India
thirty years back was a great airline till Praful Patel came and sold it for
money. Really hope they can revive this because it’s India's pride.
The bug related incident is
shameful. If this happened in a private airline, there would be a big price to
pay with their stock price taking a nose dive. In case of AI, the government
keeps the incompetence going, by making money from the tax payer. Just shut
down the airline or sell it off in pieces. If any opposition party makes a
noise, just ignore.
AI’s service is pathetic. It is
prudent to get merged with a profit making carrier before it is too late.
But private airlines are not
without their faults. Dilapidated aircraft, drunken pilots and robust behaviour
of the crew members is a routine complaints you hear of private airlines. To
meet the bottom line in cut-throat competition, these private airlines
compromise on airworthiness of the aircrafts. Therefore, highlight lacunae of
these new generation airlines.
A big noise is made about what
happened in an airline. But this is what a common man in India endures during
public transport travels. It comes to public notice only when it affects the
higher class people.
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