Emirates Airlines

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fazila March 23, 2010
cell phone stolen from checked in luggage
we flew on emirates airlines on the 22nd of march 2010 from jeddah to durban.my cellphone was in my checked in luggage and upon reaching home i noticed that my cellphone was stolen with my south african sim card still inside.
Nagraj narayana gurrala March 20, 2010
customer service
Respected management,
I had been to sheikh zayed road branch three days ago. I met manager Mrs amal regarding reschdule my personal loan. the manager is very good lady she explained me very nicely and she told me to go and see Mr noman but he was not understanding about this matter and he is not talking proper way and he is screaming and he is talking very cheaply, at least he should know how to talk to customer, since i am not a bad one, i am very dissapointed as i expected minimum point of respect from your customer service officers. Hope you wil look in to the matter and give me a justification. I suggest Mr noman needs very good training in dealing with customers.
Many times i met Mr sunil he is very respectable person he always helps people in proper way. He brought me into this bank.
Thanking you
Nagraj Gurrala
0507750086
Ali Khoshnevisan March 12, 2010
Disasterous int'l flight
I have never had such a nightmarish flight in all my travelling life. To begin with my Emirates flt EK216 dated March 10, 2010 leaving LA for Dubai at 16:00 was unexplainably delayed at LAX for two and a half hours. After boarding this 16 hour flight we were informed by the Captain that the inflight entertainment system was busted for some odd reason and we were therefore deprived of the of usual divertionary methods of whiling away the never ending time on such a long flight. Can you possibly imagine such a long flight without a single solitary movie or a single track of music?
To top it all the whole monotonous flight we were offered beef or chicken curry for breakfast lunch and dinner. Would you not consider this cruel and unusual punishment on such a long flight? After all we were not even flying to Mumbai for heavens sake! A simple roll or croissant with butter and jam would have really hit the spot at 7 a.m.
Consider my predicament since I have a return flight back to LA with the same airline in two months. Am I in for the same excellent treatment and if so should I just shoot myself before I set foot on another of your flights?
I am expectantly awaiting your explanation and I am,

yours forever angry

Hassan Khadjenouri
shivani singh March 8, 2010
bad customer service
i took an emirates flight from newcastle to india via dubai on the 6th march 2010.i reached the airport abt 3 hrs before check in as adviced.since i was leaving the Uk for good and coming to india, i had quite a lot of luggage.anyways i was told tht my baggage was overweight n i either needed to trash some of it pay for it.also as per normal flight rules which allow 7-8 kgs hand baggage and the laptop bag is extra.Now these people at the airport told me that...NO ..emirates had changed the rules and its just ONE hand baggae and wht u put in it laptop or clothes or whatever it can be only 7kgs in total.now that created a HUGE problem for me coz most of the flights...infact all that i have travlled on so far(and i have travlled on many) allow 7-8 kgs + a laptop bag, but the lady at check in kept insisting that no emirates and cahnged the rules and it was what she was telling me.I had a open return ticket for emirates and since i had travlled from india to Uk only 6 months back and i had carried a laptop bag and 7 kgs per person of handbaggage i had to ask her when they cahnged the rules to which the answer was 2-1/2 yrs back. At that point it seemed very clear that all emirates was trying to do was make money from me by charging a whopping 25£ /kg and trying to make up for its looses in this day of recession.
anyways till this point things were still bearable and i managed to literally trash tonnes of my stuff at the airport.but these people were so so uncoperative that werent even letting 0.5-0.75kg go by.all this trashing, packing reweighing time n again took us loads of time and it was almost 12:20 by the time we got our boarding passes with all check in and hand bag weight isssues being cleared off.and we were just proceeding straightaway for the boarding gates when they started announcing our names asking us to baord asap.this wasnt the first time i had taken a flight and me n my husband were walking as fast as we could.but then an emirates person met with with us ..almost like an escort but a very rude one.there was still time for the flight to take off and i do agree that all this dealy was our fault but even then taht doesnt give any place to rudeness..coz the person literally told us 'I DONT WANT U GUYS TO WALK ...RUN!...no PLEASE NUTHIN'...i did to try to run but with the heels n the handbad n everything its not the easiest of runs from gate no. 11 to gate no 25.but the guy irrespective of the situation kept insisiting run..there isnt time to walk...
and then when we finally reached the gate the emirates person there literally shouted at my husband...that we r gonna offboard you from the flight...and i quote " I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION FOR THE DELAY"...please note "demand and not want or request"...what kind of customer service is that...and the guy went on to say that we want to weigh your hand baggages again...and this time on a normal scale and it showed a diff of 1.5-1.75 kgs again...when the lady at the check in had weighed them they were exactly accordind to specs nd weight limits so what gaurentee did i have that their analogue weighing scale didnt have an error but the 4-5 of them were so loud n rude n kept insisting that u either reduce your baggage in 3mins or they would take off ur luggage and take the flight without us...but i had important reasons to come back to india and cdnt have missed the flight i gave them the money ...and and just boarded ...just to see that more than half the flight was going empty so it was like that that extra 1.5 kgs wd've put an extra burden on the flight...so emirtaes needs to learn not to stick to the rules in the book likea parrot and that to co-opertae with the customer if and when possible and give certain leavage according to the situation ...anyways but in all this episode the way i was treated in the last bit...the tone and the language that they used were so loud n rude and literally felt like an act of racism...these emirates officials wdnt have talked like that to a brit or american...but they take it as their right to talk to us as if they still rule our country.well news is ...that those days are long gone by and I'm not gonna accept this or let this go by...if i have to take it to the media or to the court i will...but if these people think that they can treat the customer whatever way they want they are wrong.at no point am i denying that being late due to excess baggage wasn't my fault...but a big part of it was due to the handbaggage rule confusion...but that doesnt give anybody the right to talk to me or my husband or anybody like this.I had paid quite a good amount for that ticket and i will not take any kind of shit from anybody.I think emirates needs to look at the past where the airline industry was a model of customer services to ever other industry...where the flight officials always started and ended sentences with please n thanks.
I'm not letting this issue go by so i want this to be looked into asap nag given an explanation.
Lynn Afotey March 7, 2010
Price of fare
I would like to complain about all the special airfare to various parts of the world but not to Accra. Ghana. West Africa.

Last February 2009 i had to take my daughter back there. She is 4 years old and lost her visa due to being diagnosed with autism. The fare was only $1640 or near that..it was a special i realise that.

But i cannot afford to go and visit her if the fare is as high as it is.

Is there someway i can source a cheap fare to there. I have all the proof of her disability and return. I am the Director of a childcare centre and a reputable business women. It was heartbreaking to have to send her back and i have flown with Emirates many times back and forth with my family, but i can no longer afford the high prioce of the fare and want so desperately to see my disabled daughter.

Thank you..Lynn Afotey-Otu
Mob: 0417197876
Work: (07)34913288
Little Legends Child Care Centre.
Dakabin. Qld 4503
chakku71 March 5, 2010
Service
I had booked a ticket to the UK to India and back. Since the airline changed the schedule by bringing the departure time of the return leg forward by 90 minutes. I complained that this change though only 90 minutes was inconvenient but emirates failed to uphold my protest. I lost the cancellation fee but I contested the claims in a consumer court. Emirates came with full guns blazing and was quite intimidating and stressful for me but I won the court case.
So my advice is do not just moan about it- challenge it in a court and send them a message that customers are not going to lie low and take any stupidity from emirates
A.S.weliwitigoda February 20, 2010
change of schedule
The Person in charge of Customer affairs

Sub – Ticketing Details

Passenger Name. A.S. Weliwitigoda
Ticket No: 17621132300564
Flight departure Time 20.15 - EK 0654 / EK 0705
Date 9th Feb
Origin: Colombo – Dubai / Dubai – Seychelles

Rescheduled
12th Feb EK 349 Colombo – Dubai and onwards to Seychelles


Dear Sir / Madam,
I, A.S. Weliwitigoda did book my ticket two – three weeks in advance from Mahe, Seychelles through Masons Travels. I was a very frequent flyer of Qatar Airways but as their service and connecting times were with longer hours of transit I believe I wanted a change and decided to fly Emirates in spite of the high priced ticket to make a quicker connection.
With all the disappointment that I had, being a member of the Privilege Club and not having most of its privileges, was further more disappointed with emirates to know that flight schedules had changed and no one had the courtesy to inform my employers back in the Seychelles or me, within the period of almost a whole month of my holiday. Well I did go to the Airport on the 9th of Feb, to see that the flight schedules were changed and finally met the Station Manager Mr. Ravi Weliwita who apologised very humbly and made arrangements for me try another connecting flight by which time all scheduled flights had already left. He also wanted to assist me with transportation back home which was quite a useless offer to make, as I had come in my own transport and live 10 minutes away ftrom the Airport.
Well as I was delayed for two days and over, I had really a tough time securing my job and had to pump in an extra expense to call my employers, email, fax, reschedule all my domestic flights and go through all this hassle just because the airline could not keep up to its standards.
In spite of all that I did call him once again and humbly requested if he could give me an upgrading to first or business class as I believe I did see enough empty seats and the flight wasn’t that full as per the manifest. He very obligingly said he would see what he could do and asked me to speak to a person by the name of Mr. Bernard who would be on duty at night.
So once again I made my journey to the Airport on the 12th of Feb, with the belief that I could regain my job and went to Mr. Bernard who was so unwelcomingly rude and says the only upgrading could be to offer me the lounge in Sri Lanka which was utterly useless as I did come from home which is just 10 minutes away after having a thorough meal with my family.
I believe by what you read in this mail how much disappointed I am and believe it is up to you – The Emirates Airlines to compensate for all the mental and physical stress and frustration I had gone through after deciding to enjoy a long journey with a fantastic airline. Your disturbing services could result in the loss of another valuable customer because I am yet to use my return on the 10th of July 2010 back to Colombo which if you have the interest could make up to me when you check with the reservations and change the mode of thinking
Thanks to the Emirates and its entire unruly staff who could be jeopardising the services of a First class Airline.

A.S. Weliwitigoda
Mice February 16, 2010
Bad Service
I flew Australia to Lebanon with emirates; I have used them many times but this time was the last.
On all legs of teh journey, I booked my seats online before departure, emirates did not process the seat selection on any of the journey's except for teh home leg, in which my seat was taken by other passengers every time I went to the toilet.
After raising the issue with staff, they did not assist and for 8 hours of a 16 hour trip, I had no seat as those passengers refused to leave my ticketed and paid for seat.

In addition, the staff rammed the trolly's into my arm and head multiple times, without so much of a quick 'sorry'.
If you try to contact them, you will have great difficulty. They are not accountable or transparent, beware of this company their standards are going down hill, fast.

I will never fly them again, even if it means flying around the globe to reach my destination.
shokot February 9, 2010
Poor services
Dear Flyers

I frequently travel to Bangladesh on other airlines but this time I wanted to fly the worlds favourite airline. Me, my partner and 18 month old baby were looking forward to traveling to Bangladesh with Emirates. When we enquired about the coach service the travel agent told us thet the coach is modern, air conditioned ect and the journey from Dhaka to sylhet is about 4 hours. Were we in for a shock!!!.

When we landed in Dhaka we waited about an hour before we were told we can make our way to the coach. When we got to the coach to my shock the coach was something out of 1950's or 1960's. The windows were broken, seats were torn and smelly ect and I feared for my familys safety. That time of the night there was no alternative so I decided to travel on the coach. After half an hour or so the driver was ready to leave and the coach wouldnt start, so we the passenger had to get out and push start the coach and that happened two other times. After travelling for about 3hrs or so the engine caught fire, so they used mineral water from the passenger to put out the fire and we had to wait in middle of nowhere for the driver to check the engine. Then at some point at night we stopped at a service station when we were told 3 of the tyres were punctured so we can wait or seek alternative transport. I approached various coach drivers including a company called Green line but unfortanitly they didnt have 2 spare seats. I also asked the driver the journey time from Dhaka to sylhet, he said 4 hours. We fineally came to sylhet at approxmatley 7.45 am. We also had to pay the driver money (1000tk) which he insisted.

From the journey by road from Dhaka to Sylhet myself, my partner and the baby were unwell from flu, temperature and aches all over the body. We went to Bangladesh for just under 3 weeks and we lost a week from illness.


When we complained to Emirates I got a apology, 5000 air miles (wasent worth anything told by staff when enquired) and blamed the third party who were responsible for the coach journey which they will look into.

I would not recommend anybody to fly to Bangladesh on Emirates, espically to sylhet.
Sachin Grover February 2, 2010
Worst Journey ever
Dear Sir / Ma'am,

This has reference to my last business travel I had with Emirates; it was one of the most horrifying experiences ever with any airline i've flown in.

The sector i've flown were Delhi - London - Bahrain - Delhi and my PNR was DL3HXS. Please find below the list of problems i have faced with Emirates in just one trip.

1) After the booking the flight, I was not able to upgrade my flights due to some error in your server and I had to cal the Skywards office in Mumbai every time a change was required. The problem was only with my PNR number as told by the customer representative.

2) While traveling from London - Bahrain in Business class, i expected my luggage to be on-board, whereas, one of my luggage didn't reach Bahrain at night 02.45 and all my hotel transfer papers & bookings were in them. I had to take a taxi and go to the hotel wherein, my pick up & dropped was booked with the hotel. The worst was that the ground staff was unaware about my baggage as the system was not showing anything.

3) Non-arrival of baggage was not enough, I was told by the ground staff that Emirates cannot send your luggage in the hotel and you have to come personally to pick it up from the airport. First I had to buy clothes for that morning from the local shops and then book a taxi to go to the airport and then to work which wasted my half day & money.

4) The grief doesn't end here - After reaching Dubai from Bahrain, we came to know that the flight has been delayed by more than 12 hours and when contacted with the emirates ground staff we were given a form to fill so that emirates office can contact our families and let them know about our well being. It was so ridiculous that being a Business class traveler & silver card holder, we were not offered with any rooms etc at or outside the airport. Later I came to know that because of the few guests yelling at the staff, they were provided with rooms in the Millenium hotel in Dubai whereas I stayed at the airport for 12 hours without any assistance provided by the ground staff. Now i feel, shouting on the airline staff would have been better than keeping quiet.

5) As I was traveling from Bahrain in Business class & being a silver card holder, my baggage had a priority tag on it. But as per the Emirates Airlines reputation goes, mine was the last (literally) bag coming out of the conveyor belt. I had to wait for 1- 1/2 hour for my bag. It had been the worst experience I've ever had with any airline.

I think I need to change my airline as I had been a frequent flyer with Emirates for quite some time and had been a spokesperson amongst my group about the good service I've been getting. But after this journey, my views about the airline has changed completely and have to think about shifting it to some other airline.

With Kind Regards

Sachin Grover
Country Head
ASR Certification Services Pvt. Ltd.
657, Sector - 15, Part - I,
Gurgaon.
www.ASRworldwide.com
98116 53069
Skywards number - 163024805

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