Snowballing customer ire has brought to the fore a deeper rot within the joint venture between the Tatas and Singapore Airlines, heightening the uncertainty on the airline’s future.
The customer thought she had heard it wrong. “Sorry?” the customer, whom we will call DS, asked the executive at the counter. “We have to cancel your ticket,” the executive repeated, without a blink of an eye.
It was 30 December. DS was booked to fly to Dubai to be with her friends and relatives to usher in the New Year. But standing at the Vistara counter in Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, she could see the worst fears of a traveller coming true.
DS, the executive said, was a US passport holder and despite her status as an Overseas …
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