HELP BRING REAL AIRLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE BACK!!!
— “BRING BACK THE AIRPORT HELP DESK’ —-
This groupal is a petition to get all major airlines to have in place ‘disaster customer service procedures’ involving increased face-to-face staffing and improved/effective use of technology to aid passengers and customers at times of disaster.
Increasingly airlines use customer service technologies to ‘cut staffing costs’ and to distance themselves from customers, passengers and the general public, especially at time of great crisis and distress because of airline or airport service disruption.
In early 2010 across Europe flights where canceled on mass due to the Volcano crisis and at December in 2010 many airports across UK are ebing closed closed, flights canceled, leaving passengers without information, transport or a room for the night.
Airlines use customer service technologies such as 1-800 numbers and websites to refer customers and passengers to. Handing out pieces of paper at the airport, not helping them across the counter but telling them to go away and ‘call this number’ or ‘log onto our website’, only to find the telephone number is never answered, is invalid and the website only takes ‘new bookings’ if any at all. Some airlines (e.g., American Airlines) even charge customers per minute for calling the help line, paying to be left on hold indefiently.
This not only cause major distress to customers, but also to those members of society without internet access, limited funds to call from mobiles or without the necessary skills increasingly at a disadvantage.
Airlines have a LEGAL responsibility and a MORAL duty of care to IMPROVE their customer service operations and information provision activities, especially at times of disaster involving mass flight cancellations and/or delays.
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Post created from: The floor in Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport with 1000′s of fellow passengers.
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I m majorly p**sed at Heathrow management BAA. 1 foot of snow and they announce closure even before the day has begun.
BAA should know better.
via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via TwitterI just hope the companies who have shown contempt for their passengers, rather than service, are hit hard in the pocket.
I really feel for the people stuck in the airports and hope a speedy resolution can be found.
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes,
Rab.
via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter via TwitterThe airline's disregard for customer service at a difficult time for passengers - the insult
However, we must also place focus on the root cause -- BAA simply negligently failed to provision for equipment and materials to keep the airport open under what were actually fairly moderate conditions.
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