Yamini C S | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
An AirAsia passenger attempting to ebook a flight from Hyderabad to Bengaluru was left puzzled after a ‘technical glitch’ confirmed his flight – I5 1543 – taking off from (Bengaluru’s )Kempegowda Worldwide Airport in Hyderabad and touchdown at (Kolkata’s) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Worldwide Airport again in Bengaluru.
The passenger – Auditya Venkatesh – tweeted a screenshot of the mix-up and the submit rapidly went viral. With the screenshot Venkatesh requested, “Hello AirAsia India that is actually complicated. So if I ebook this ticket, the place will I actually go? And the place will I go away from?”
The airline responded: “Hello Auditya, there is likely to be a technical glitch. Kindly refresh the web page and do the recent reserving.”
To this Venkatesh replied, “The truth that it is a glitch is apparent. It did the identical factor once more, it was to edit an current reserving by way of the chrome browser on an Android cellphone. It nonetheless retains exhibiting the identical factor. I nonetheless went forward and booked it, as a result of it was a final minute change. Fingers crossed.”
“The codes are the one right factor. Haha. The flight I used to be attempting to ebook was from Hyderabad to Bengaluru,” he posted in a separate tweet.
Social media customers had been amused by the interplay and the weird flight schedule – which confirmed two departures and two locations.
“This can be a real service request however looks like a meme,” one person stated.
“We’re within the Musk melon Twitter now, the world is a meme,” Venkatesh responded.
“Bangalore airport is in Hyderabad solely. What is the confusion,” one other person stated, taking a dig on the distance between Bengaluru metropolis and the airport.
Yet one more wrote, “In value of 1 ticket you possibly can go to 3 cities.. what else do you would like for?”