Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain to BA
Nov 13, 2015, 3:42 am
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Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain to BA
Great story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
Nov 13, 2015, 3:58 am
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Great story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
The whole DM your details process is so we can confirm who they are. No different to asking you to confirm your name on the phone!
Nov 13, 2015, 4:47 am
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Admittedly there's very few cricket fans in the social media team, so it's plausible that the agent replying to the tweet genuinely didn't know who he was.
The whole DM your details process is so we can confirm who they are. No different to asking you to confirm your name on the phone!
The whole DM your details process is so we can confirm who they are. No different to asking you to confirm your name on the phone!
Nov 13, 2015, 4:53 am
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Great story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...disbelief.html
It seems waitlisted passengers didn't get a seat and luggage went missing. Sachin Tendulkar takes to twitter to complain.
Nov 13, 2015, 5:02 am
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Sounds to me like this cricket guy has a major God complex. News flash! Not everyone likes cricket, and even more have no idea about cricketing people. Going to Twitter because one person in a British company hasn't heard of (or doesn't immediately kowtow to) an Indian cricketer seems incredibly sad to me. I guess that's why it's in the DYKWIA forum!
FWIW there are probably close to a billion people that treat this guy like a God!
Nov 13, 2015, 5:05 am
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Perhaps a quick gander at his twitter account might have helped, just over the 8m followers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34807450
6th most read story on BBC today so far
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The BA's twitter person acted completely correctly - it's not remotely uncommon for the name on the passport/ticket to be different from the public name of a celebrity.
Nov 13, 2015, 5:35 am
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Sounds to me like this cricket guy has a major God complex. News flash! Not everyone likes cricket, and even more have no idea about cricketing people. Going to Twitter because one person in a British company hasn't heard of (or doesn't immediately kowtow to) an Indian cricketer seems incredibly sad to me. I guess that's why it's in the DYKWIA forum!
As for the waitlist business, they were obviously not waitlisted in the class in which seats were open.
Nov 13, 2015, 5:44 am
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I am British but I've literally never heard of this person nor come across his name in my life. Doesn't mean I would not treat him politely if I met him, I would treat him the same as anyone else.
As for the waitlist business, they were obviously not waitlisted in the class in which seats were open.
As for the waitlist business, they were obviously not waitlisted in the class in which seats were open.
However, whatever way you look at it, this is a gaff by the social media team.
Nov 13, 2015, 5:49 am
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Too many celebs use twitter as a first point of call before trying a quieter way first. It's a bit like writing directly to the Chief Executive before writing to CR.