Korean Air Skypass - KE strands pax at ICN

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Well, in this case, it seems like King Fisher's responsible for the problem, not KE... unless KE is lying. But given the current state of King Fisher, it's more likely that King Fisher sold a seat on KE's flight, but didn't fulfill their financial agreement to KE on that ticket; thus, KE has right to cancel PAX's KE segment.

These PAX had a 'confirmed' ticket only for HKG-India and that must have not been clearly reflect on the website (instead it erroneously showed as confirmed for all flights).

I feel sorry for the PAX, but I cannot see why KE is getting a 'bad' publicity for this. It should have been written that "King Fisher strands pax in Seoul by not..." It's also odd to see that King Fisher rep contacted his 'friend' in Seoul to put these PAX up for the night. This sounds so un-corporate like and clearly shows how serious the financial problem is there at King Fisher.

kingfisher is the culprit here....

Perhaps title should be changed.

King Fisher Airlines? What did they expect? I have drunken the beer though.

Well, in this case, it seems like King Fisher's responsible for the problem, not KE... unless KE is lying. But given the current state of King Fisher, it's more likely that King Fisher sold a seat on KE's flight, but didn't fulfill their financial agreement to KE on that ticket; thus, KE has right to cancel PAX's KE segment.

These PAX had a 'confirmed' ticket only for HKG-India and that must have not been clearly reflect on the website (instead it erroneously showed as confirmed for all flights).

I feel sorry for the PAX, but I cannot see why KE is getting a 'bad' publicity for this. It should have been written that "King Fisher strands pax in Seoul by not..." It's also odd to see that King Fisher rep contacted his 'friend' in Seoul to put these PAX up for the night. This sounds so un-corporate like and clearly shows how serious the financial problem is there at King Fisher.

Was it issued as 180 ticket stock though?
The pax paid for the ticket, they should go to where they were supposed to go.
Besides, how would KE know that IT had paid KE for other tickets, but just not the ticket belonging to the pax?

...how would KE know that IT had paid KE for other tickets, but just not the ticket belonging to the pax?


the ticket was invalid since their interline agreement with Kingfisher had ended owing to defaults in payments by the domestic carrier.


KE will not receive any payment from IT for any ticket after termination of interline agreement.@:-) It is based on date of travel.