Harassment of Woman Traveller by Jet Airways Official
December 13, 2016 • 2 Likes • 3 Comments

I have had numerous instances of mistreatment of solo women travellers across the globe in my many sojourns. But what takes the cake is the trauma I had to undergo on my flight 9w 2053 Mum - Jaipur this afternoon at 1420 hours.

I am choosing to go online on Linkedin with the trauma as a bulk of the Jet Airways Platinum members are ob LinkedIn, and they need to understand exactly how high handed Jet Airways officials are, and the manner in which they torture and harass women travellers.

One of the few advantages of being a Jetprvileige Platinum member ( there aren't too many) is that one can board the flight at any time through a separate line, and to the best of my knowledge, this is something that I have been doing last few flights.

Today, when a few of us tried Platinum member tried to board at our own timing, we were rudely stopped by the Supervisor at the counter, Vishal., who said that the privilege of Platinum members has been withdrawn. When I raised a question regarding the rules, and pointed out that we have not been communicated anything to the contrary by the Jet Privilege team. I took a photograph of Vishal ( full clothed, of course) upper torso, to send details to Jet Customer Service with details of the supervisor and to file a complaint.

The next thing I know, my boarding pass was rudely snatched out of my hand by Vishal, and he called the Police on me, and threatened me numerous times that we will not allow me to board my flight, and will see to it that I don't get to Jaipur, unless I hand over my phone to him so that he can delete his photograph.

CISF forces at the Boarding gate took one look at the photo and decided I was well within my rights and said they cannot intervene, but I was stopped by Vishal till 14:16 hours when the flight was to take off at 1420 hours. By the time I reached the seat, I was in tears and exhausted with the trauma and the threats.

Jet Platinum member who ae well educated and well travelled stood by and watched the whole incident without getting involved and did not take a stance about their rights. I believe I still live in a democracy and am owed human dignity, and proper treatment as a solo woman traveller who does around eight flights a month is entitled to a voice and to clarify her rights and duties.

I still live in a democracy and I still breathe fresh air for free.

If any wonderful Jet Airways senior management areas and bothers enough about dignity of women and their solo customer base, please feel free to get in touch with me and collect evidence,

For the others who choose to get trampled on, and not exercise their rights, its time we stood up for what is due to us.