Gulliver Business Travel

All complaints via carrier pigeon, please

TRAVEL firms are big pushers of new technology when it helps to get more customers through their doors and lower their costs. Buy tickets online? No problem. Check in online? Even better. These days with some airlines you don’t even need to print out a boarding pass, as it can be sent directly to your phone.


But if something goes wrong, those same airlines and hotels suddenly come on terribly technophobic. I was one of the thousands of unhappy souls stranded in the Great Snowy Balls-up of Christmas 2010, and am trying to get some compensation from my carrier, British Airways. I made my initial complaint at the beginning of January, and BA—which is able to sell you a new ticket in seconds flat—is still processing it.

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