I always stand up for what I believe in and what is right even if it means standing alone...In life standing up for your rights is never easy but it is very important to embark on this Long and difficult path to enforce and protect your individual and consumer rights.We all must be aware of our rights.In exercising our rights are we truly free individuals.

I have won many long customer battles against Banks,Phone Companies, Airlines, Electronics Companies etc. I have devoted time and energy to demand positive resolutions for myself and people around me. I hate it when one is denied what every customer has a right to...and that is when I find it important to address it and complain about it. I know it takes time to escalate matters but somehow I prefer to address it no matter what. Having lived in America for sometime, I give a lot of importance to Individual Rights.

It is my nephew who inspired me to write this blog. He felt the importance of his rights and the need to address this subject in a blog very early in age when he was unhappy with the services of a certain Airline. It was then that he suggested that I should write a blog concerning such matters too.

Everyone has certain rights but we are usually not informed about them or do not exercise them. We have a right to be heard...and we must never forget that. There is One Right for All and None should be discriminated. One has the right to question and a right to information. With growing middle class touch 400 million and consumerism, Indian Companies need to become responsive to Consumer complaints and grievances. Ignoring such complaints could lead to big financial losses for the company on consumer complaints being upheld by Consumer Courts.

In this blog, I would like us to share our knowledge about how best to address our complaints effectively as a customer or consumer. It is also important to inform people about the poor customer services provided by reputed brand names. But I would also like to hi-light the names of companies and brands who have co-operated with customers and given positive responses. Please do share your experiences too.

You do not win every battle in life but you learn lessons from it and hopefully live to win it some day. Through this blog ,I would like to inspire people to stand up for their rights and if needed fight for it but the fight for your rights has to be fair and honest. I aim to create a direction and awareness for people who are not given their due rights as an individual first and then as a consumer. There are always solutions and there are way to reach those solutions or alternatives as customers through proper channels.

Whenever you have been able to get your rights heard, you should generously share that knowledge as how best to achieve that so that others could follow that too. Pay it forward ! We should share knowledge and in doing so we will learn more from each other. Alone you can stand up for your rights but with people behind you and with you , there will be more force in it and consumers and customers will not be taken for granted. United we stand in getting value for our hard earned money...United we stand in ensuring we get good customer service.

When there is a will there is a way. When you stand up for your rights and for others , somebody will listen to you sooner or later. Your voice will be heard ! But for that you have to speak out ! Silence can sometimes be mistaken as weakness or indifference. Always know your rights and request for those rights to be implemented but if they are not then demand that justice be served.


Always stand up for your rights...

Consumer Rights Consumer Might !

" Sadaa Haq Aithe Rakh ! "

"Manzil mushkil to Kya... Humhe to us rah par chalna hi hai..."


Monday, September 26, 2016

All Nippon Airways New Delhi Airport : Harassment of Senior Citizen


ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS NEW DELHI AIPORT CHECK-IN COUNTER- HARASSMENT OF SENIOR CITIZEN

Pathetic and unprofessional  customer service ! The ANA representatives are harassing senior citizens. I am writing to inform about the undue harassment of my mother who is a senior citizen. She is a frequent traveller and has been travelling with ANA for a long time now but never has she been harassed and discriminated like this.

She is a permanent resident of U.S and always does web check-in before her travel. But tonight she was made to wait for an hour at the ANA counter at New Delhi Airport because the lady behind the counter wanted to "swipe" her Green Card and claimed that her system was not working to do so immediately. It was not her place to swipe the Green card as this is the job of the immigration counter.

My mother due to health issues can't stand for long and naturally this long delay at the ANA check-in counter affected her greatly and caused her endless inconvenience. They should have upgraded her seat considering the long delay because of their fault and inefficiency.

No senior person from ANA intervened to resolve the problem . Since she is a permanent resident of United States, I would like to know from ANA under which rule ANA staff insisted that the Green Card had to be swiped at the check-in counter from the originating station of the travel i.e New Delhi Airport. We have the Right to Answers and the Right to Information. And so I have raised this issue with ANA on their social media page and website.

On insisting on having the name of the lady concerned, much later we were informed that her name was Bushra Khan if that is the correct name we were given.

 ANA is spoiling the image of Japanese Customer Service. I have worked in Japan and my family has lived in Japan too and we know for sure that such bad customer service is inexcusable and unacceptable in Japan. So why doesn't ANA deliver the same smooth customer service and pleasant experience internationally ? Shitsurei desu !


2 comments:

  1. Despite arriving at the Airport three hours before the flight and web-check in, ANA made my mother wait for an hour. Demonstrates their lack of professionalism.

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  2. The response from the ANA Duty Manager Ms. Rawat at New Delhi Airport was very disappointing as it lacked empathy, sensitivity and a diplomatic stand on the entire matter. It was obvious that they are not interested in their passengers' feedbacks or complaints and they are not willing to make it up to their customers the way Emirates does or even offer a sincere apology. Instead they are out to contradict the customers all the time. I am particularly disappointed because I expected better from a Japanese Company. ANA should be more selective about their Airport staff and teach them to demonstrate sensitivity in addressing complaints through emails. Instead of neutralising a passenger they tend to alienate their passengers. Perhaps travel agents were right in telling me to choose other airlines over ANA over the years. The only reason we always chose ANA was only because of their reservations office staff.

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