Whizkid

Could be him or one of his disciples from airliners.net or some another bizhat forums


At least they should've fixed this in Business Class -


Food is one area, AI is consistent recently, the credit should go to the caterer and the F&B Manager. I still remember a IC Flight taken 2-3 years back with a Stale, almost gone bad samosa as a snack, when pointed out to the FA, got a

But off 10+ flights taken in last year by wife, she still remembers the food served in a AI flight. (FWIW, worst being KF)

I like 9W J Class (on the full service ones) for the Lounge, Inflight Service and Food.

+1 to : Overall 9W biz class trumps all others available in India,

PVDtoDEL

observations are good! If you are going to be making observations, you might want to forward them to AI as well - after all, they are the ones who can do something about it, not me...


It's India. 20 minutes late is on time

That said, it always annoys me when employees give me misinformation like that. I'm not a fan
No, it wasn't me. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one though . Next time this happens to you, take his card and forward it to me. It's not every day that I find other people who like AI...

That's terrible. If I were in your place, I would probably be tempted to be a real FTer and drag over the station manager to demand compensation

As unsatisfactory as this is, at least you could look forward to real food on board
Yeah, that's happened to me many times. Interestingly enough, it's more common on SG than AI - their Q400 operation's on-time rates seem to be dependent on getting the entire flight standing by the counter ready to go 15 minutes before boarding commences. Followed by sitting on the bus for 10 minutes without going anywhere of course
If you boarded first, how do you know that boarding went well?

What kind? Have they stopped serving the pineapple juice? That stuff was good.
If only the rest of the flight was this good, I wouldn't need to argue so much to convince everyone else that AI is good.
That's why their decision to make the J cabin smaller was a good one. At least people are paying for the Y seats.
Presumably, they are married to people in management. Perhaps those people should be willing to take a cut in this (wholly unnecessary) benifit so that AI can afford to pay their pilots, FAs, CSRs, etc. on time?

You booked IT over AI?
I guess I see your point. However, your point is akin to saying that AI has a monopoly in the FSC market because they are the only FSC which I fly in India. Whether people are flying them or not is irrelevant - the very existence of AI as an FSC means that there is no monopoly.

PVDtoDEL

I have disciples? Nobody told me




Interestingly, the food I remember most vividly was my first IT flight. It was the first time I had ever been served food on the short IXE-BLR hop, and I was in a bit of shock... I thought the food was absolutely fantastic. I can think of many AI meals which were good, but they were all missing that "shock" aspect that made the IT meal taste so good.

Keyser

i have done that more times than i can remember....nothing has ever been done....

20 minutes is no big deal but just let me know it's late....no good comes out of small lies like this....

will do....

boarding went well for me....these are my observations, remember????

there was a choice between 3 or 4 different items....i took the grape juice....

there were 20 seats in business which i still think is too much....

they could be married to anyone....ai has to stop this (among many other things) if they plan on becoming profitable....

i didn't, my clients did....

not true....a product could exist in the market but if it's not being used or being used very rarely then it's existence does not change the market trend....

PVDtoDEL

I got a call once from the Purser about how they could fix the problem next time... I was very impressed.
Agree completely.
good point
I agree completely. I'd imagine that 10 would be more around the right level... Agree completely

Find new clients

Well, then it is a de facto monopoly. The very existence means that there is another option, so it's not a true monopoly...

A2A

before AI v/s AI grows out here, just a small pointer guys. We were discussing JPMiles redemption for less here!

rkpanwar

:-D I loved your comments. but KF (King Fisher) becoming KFC , there was hardly any option for Business Class.

Try out Indigo sometime, They manage to reach on time in most cases which is attracting me from full service providers.

-rkp

PVDtoDEL

Interestingly I loved his comments too. For example:

I guess everybody looks for confirmations of their own bias.

I like SG better than Indigo. SG has a much superior on-time percentage - almost 5%!

AJLondon

Can you speak a little louder. It seems you can't be heard...!

A2A

I know why. Thats because Keyser and PVDtoDEL are debating Air India's QoS on The News Hour with Arnab Goswami ...

PVDtoDEL

Were we debating? I thought we were agreeing. And agreeing never happens when Arnab Goswami is around.

Keyser

debating with arnab goswami????

PVDtoDEL

I'd think that Keyserbhai has better standards than that

Keyser

i think everyone has better standards than that....

avm2806

the debate goes on. Pigs will fly, cows will jump over the moon and JP will never improve. Time to give up and move to another FFP for me and an airline that values loyalty better (on international, domestically 9W still offers the maximum connectivity out of MAA and on short domestic hops, network and options are more important than any factor to me).