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Travelling from air Asia fd 331 on 7 may 2017 - while leaving flight air hostess handed over air bag and blamed me for loss airbag my kid cranky and were hungry crying coz were tired and air Asia crew memember behaved so rude took us n made me pay for what we didn't do it
No Investigation
Kids said it was already Lyin halfly prior downside
Plz take some action against air Asia coz they really making bad image for Thailand tourism

First of all, AirAsia releases a promotion whereby tickets are 50% cheaper if you pick a seat during the booking.
Second, if you try to book the flight by booking the seat, the system does not give you the discount.
Third, if you try to speak to the customer service, it basically does not answer your question and literally leave you talking alone.
Fourth, the terms and conditions are not clear. For instance it will clearly say that the travel period is "Travel Period: 5 September 2017 – 8 February 2018" but then it will have in the notes "Discount will not be available during peak periods." and finally it will not disclose what "peak periods" actually mean in terms of dates!

What a joke!

I'm attaching my attempt of discussing my situation with the customer service.

I had a terrible experience with Airasia. I have a flight on 04-May from Singapore bound to CEBU with flightZ2 7237 booking reference is GQ2WTR. Upon check-in the staff was unable to find my booking, i was then referred to another staff named Asri who's from the operations team. He was also surprised and have no single clue what could've caused the problem. He contacted IT dept to look into it, however, we waited for almost an hour but IT didn't come back fast enough for us to be on that flight. As the flight is getting closer and we only have 30mins left to make it, the staff gave us options to 1) wait for it to be resolved and fly fly the next day 2) buy a new ticket with the same exact dates as GQ2WTR. We chose 2nd option as Leonette who's with me in this flight have doctor's appointment and scheduled for series of lab tests. everything has been pre-planned for that entire trip and there's no way to re-schedule or delay our flight else it will screw everything up! And i'm pretty confident Airasia will take responsibility about this issue. Anyway, to cut it short, we bough a ticket worth $1, 290 SGD booking AJLQ2T just to get into that flight. Yes, this is how desperate we are! I was told by the staff to write an e-form requesting for a refund as soon as i land to Cebe which I did. Days have passed but none from complaints/refund dept replied to me. So I followed up thru customer service and even tried their askairasia tweeter. I've spoken to several customer rep but none of them has an answer. I got a reply from the tweet though but it was unacceptable as they claim i made changes on my booking online and they will never refund any amount. This really pissed me off! 1st, i never made changes on my flight...2nd, if i did, should i receive a confirmation email? I didn't! 3rd, I was not charged for that change!

Strangely, as they said my flight was changed. In my experience with different airlines, your booking will never change unless you pay for it. But Airasia claims it otherwise just to refuse the refund and to insist this is my fault! Even if i tried to change my flight the system should not be changed unless i completed the whole ###ing process and get to the 'YOUR BOOKING IS CONFIRMED'. But never did I reach that phase and yet my flight was changed still. How can't that be a system glitch? C'mon Airasia, you are pushing good customers away!

This happened on the 8th May 2017 when I made payment for my booking. Payment succeeded but no booking number received. So I made another payment again. Payment succeeded but again no booking number received. I have made payments twice but no booking was done.

I have submitted e-form 3 times and went on live chat (each time waited for about an hour just to get connected) for more than 5 times. After a week, there is still no reply from Air Asia. In fact, I was told that they had closed my case without even clarify with me. I waited as being told but there is no feedback or reply for my request for refund or proceed with the booking. One of the conversation was abruptly terminated because of the 10 minutes time frame. This is so unacceptable and rude.

Case number are CAS-[protected]-VTBXLY, CAS-[protected]-H81MVJ and CAS-[protected]-2SPBMX. I was just told that Air Asia rejected the payment but no evidence was given to prove what they said. On the other hand, I have bank statement to show that my payment succeeded.

So I want to complain about the refund of payment (which up to this date, there is still no feedback from your side) and also poor customer service. Please advise what I can do.

Dear Sir /Madam,

I would like feedback about Air asia customer officer at trichy airport

I boarded 14MAY17 at 9.27pm inside document check counter but they said counter closed . I ask them how come still had 1 hour 3 mintues time left . they still check too many guys until 10.15 pm and saying that can not board anymore and i keep asking they are not properly reply me since 1 hour and they are not allowed me inside air asia office to explain . i keep asking what is the next step to book the air asia again they said can not and do not anything about this . I was very disappointed and i was approach malindo air service 10.45 pm to book the flight and will fly to singapore vis transits from malaysia easily without any delay . they were make for me from 10.45pm to 11.25 with in 40 minutes smoothly without any rushing . Since had same time next air asia flight around 11.40pm (i think air asia AK28) all your staff do not bothered about me .

Kindly refer attached documents for your easy reference . I would like refund the amount kindly go thro all the relevant documents as attached here and reply me please .

Air Asia and Option Town an affiliate of Air Asia is a cheat. Pls dont purchase any extra seat option from them. I purchased the Extra Seat Option from them and was not given the seats. My boarding pass only showed a single seat and when I checked with the crew, Sharifah Shaheera, she apologised and said a refund will be made as the seats were not available. Later after I pursued the case with Air Asia, they denied the claim and said the seats were available and I did not utilise them. Now they refuse to refund. Dont trust them. Sharifah Shaheera, where is your dignity? And to Tony Fernandez, dont cheat our money. Your airline and service is hopeless. It is better to pay a little more and get a reliable service than Air Asia.

To whom it may concern,
I am writing with a complaint about the recent booking experience I had. I booked a flight from Bali to Kuala Lumpur on 30th April 2017 and the flight was rescheduled by one hour later meaning I couldn’t meet my connection to London from Kuala Lumpur. The booking reference was JFN4WS. I was notified of this change on March 15th and decided to request a credit account option and choose the Lombok to Kuala Lumpur flight in order to ensure I met my flight to London. The correspondence from your company took so long that before leaving the UK to arrive in Indonesia, the account had not been credited. This meant that on holiday, with poor WIFI I had to continue to try to contact you to ensure I could get the account credited and book my new flight. Despite the inconvenience of this for me, your key pages on your website continually was down and inaccessible. This meant I spent a lot of frustrating hours of my holiday trying to contact you to organise these flights.
I managed to speak to you on a live chat on 22nd April and I was assured I would get a credit account. The account was credited and I was able to buy the new flight. However, this process took so long that it was one month between the flight changing (March 15th) and the credit being put into my account that the price of the flight had doubled in price, which I am not happy about. Due to your poor communication and your flight reschedule, I have had to pay twice as much for the new flight. The second issue is that when I attempted to book the new flight from Lombok to Kuala Lumpur, with the credit in my account, the function to pay with credit was not available on your website. When I tried to book with my credit the booking remained ‘pending’ and I received no contact or confirmation from you. As this was two days prior to the flight I had to pay for the flight in full with my credit card. Consequently, the credit remains on my account and I have paid twice for my travel as I subsequently had to book with credit card. So I would like the credit refunded onto mu credit card.
I have already submitted this on an enquiry form and I received an email on 15th May 2017 saying you are unable to refund me. It was an auto-generated response. My category falls under flight reschedule therefore I must be refunded.
I have used Air Asia frequently but I have been left on this occasion very unhappy with the booking process and the ability to make contact with you.
I look forward to your prompt response and receiving my refund for the credit.

Anna Stearman
Account Number [protected]

I along with my wife was travelling to Suzhou. Accordingly we booked Air Asia flight D7 302 from Kuala Lumpur to Hangzhou vide PNR no RHFV5M dated 28.04.2017. The flight was to be departed @ 8.10 a.m. and arriving Hangzhou @ 1.10 p.m. We also booked fast train from Hangzhou East railway station to Suzhou leaving at 3.40 p.m. vide booking no E881749321. The flight from KLIA was delayed for nearly 4 hrs and arrived / landed at 17.04 p.m. at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. We not only missed our connecting train but could not get ticket for any train. We were left with no option but to hire a Taxi and reached Suzhou around 9 pm. We are in the circumstances entitled to claim compensation for our missed connection due to delayed flight because of technical / engine problem. Beside being hassled at the station and running around looking for alternative transportation to Suzhou. We ended up spending 1500.00in addition to the train ticket costs. We there fore demand US 800.00 As per international standard for flight delay.

Six months ago, a group of us booked our flight tickets from Kota Kinabalu - Kuching - Sibu, then Sibu - Kuching - Kota Kinabalu. After the booking has been made, I then realized I have to be in Kuching a day before the rest of the group, so I made another new booking for my own. In the other hand, for return, I have to take the earliest flight from Sibu - Kuching, so again, I made another booking for myself for that trip, all these were happened 6 months ago.

That day, when I have arrived in Kuching, 1 day earlier then the rest of the group, I received a call from AirAsia, saying there's a double booking for the flight from Sibu to Kuching, and he is helping me to cancel one of the them and refund the fare to me. When he called, I was on the road, like I said, I was in Kuching, outstation. I didnt think properly that time what was going on actually.

Right now, I just being told to get off from the plane for AK6463. Only then I recalled what was going on. The problem is, why AirAsia is so generous now to call the passengers, to help them to cancel the double booking flight if AirAsia can see the time of departure is different. I really have a reason why I need to fly to Kuching in the morning. Right now, my whole plan has been ruined by you.

As attached is the boarding pass for Sibu - Kuching, which I've boarded and was told by by your staffs to get off the plane. For your info, this boarding pass I printed before boarding at Kota Kinabalu Airport.

This is my 5th time writing in and follow up to Air Asia regarding the same issue.
I have been charged $780 (Hong Kong Dollar) by trying to edit my flight booking.
flight booking no: MJ29UA, flight no: AK 131 from Hong Kong to Malaysia on 22 July 2016.
In fact I was trying to search if i can add on to check in baggage
I did not change any of my booking details but was charged $ 780 at the
Hong Kong airport before checking in.

I have file in 3 times but did not receive my refund and appropriate explanation from your end.

Last 2 updates from Air Asia was 29 Dec 2016 (Case Acknowledgement - CAS-[protected]-H3WS96 CRM:0001869)
17 April 2017 (Case CAS-[protected]-GRYMHP: CRM:0798524)

Please proceed and reply my request promptly.

I have booked a reservation on 8 February 2017 for 4 persons to a return flight from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne on 5 June 2017 and Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur on 11 June 2017 under AirAsia X Booking Reference: TEPEFV.

Optiontown, Air Asia's JV partner, then repeatedly e-mailed to me regarding many promotions to upgrade those 4 seats from economy to premium flatbeds.

I accepted Optiontown's upgrade offer on 21 April 2017 at the stated price of RM9, 000 on their e-mail and website. This is the Optiontown reference # [protected].

However, my credit card has been charged RM9, 354.55, which is more than what was advertised. This is fraudulent advertisement and I demanded from Optiontown's customer care for the full refund of RM9, 354.55 that has been charged to my credit card immediately.

However, Optiontown kept saying that the difference may be due to exchange rate differences and credit card charges. However, these was not highlighted in the e-mail or related portals tied to those offers.

I wish that you formally raise these matters to Air Asia's senior management of the misinformation regarding their services. I also continue to wish for the full refund of the entire RM9, 354.55 upgrade fee.

Goh Khir Peng

I have travelled from India to Malaysia via singapore and while boarding the flight the staff denied the boarding stating that Singapore visa is required, however when I consulted the Singapore immigration, they informed me that Singapore visa is not required for transit, the AirAsia staff behaved unruly and rude. They made me buy another ticket, and now I am stranded at the Kuala Lumpur Airport because of the same reason, I need to return back to India but the AirAsia guys are repeating the same thing, my friends travelling through other airlines did not face any issue at Singapore. This is the worst airline I have travelled with, no where in the worl is transit required and this airline makes their own rule. It is pathetic and very geuesome and mental harresment for me. The staff at AirAsia Malaysia also behaved rudely

On April 29th 2017 my husband and I were meant to fly out of Phuket on flight D7220, this flight was delayed by 2 hours. We revived information about this delay via email. We went to the check in desk at the boarding gate to confirm. We were told that yes the flight had been delayed and as a result we would miss our connecting flights from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney. This meant that, as a direct result miss our connection with REX to Wagga Wagga on Saturday afternoon 30th.
We explained this to the Air Asia staff in Phuket and we were assured that we would be given a motel room in KL and meal vouchers as well as transportation to and from the accommodation and Airport.
Our flight from Phuket was then postponed for a further hour with no communication from staff. When we eventually arrived at KL we were told to go to the Tranfer desk. When we got there no transportation or accommodation had been organized at all by Air Asia..Your ground staff were the rudest customer service personnel we have ever dealt with. On several occasions we got a hand shoved in our faces to tell us to stop talking, we were made to run from counter to counter to try to find out if we were going to have somewhere to sleep, as we were promised. As a result of all of this we had to stay another night in Sydney which was an extra cost of $500. We are seeking compensation from Air Asia.please contact me in regards to this Email. Kate Booker

We are 7 person who missed our flight becouse of que of immigration. We take our boarding pass at 16 o'clock and the flight was 19:05. But we reached at 19:20. Also the flight had delayed but they don't open the gate for us. We lost much money in your damn airport. We are not crazy person to buy ticket, come to airport, take the boarding pass and then didn't go to gate and miss our flight. You should arrange us to refund our money

1. a link to the government of China website with the description of transit regulations in Shanghai. "200 minutes" rule is not published for public http://sh-immigration.gov.cn/listPageEn.aspx?lx=40&id=4414

2. January 1st 2017 I took a flight from Lombok to Russia with connections in KL and Shanghai (2 hours connection). There was a precedent.

3. May 7th 2017 I am allowed to take a flight from Lombok to KL without any "200 minutes for transit" rule information from Air Asia customer service representative.

4. May 7th 2017, at 6 pm I approach the gate with my boarding pass and am informed in a rude tone that I am not allowed to take a flight. I request the name of the person talking to me and official document approving the statement. I get mentally and verbally abused. No name given no document shown during 1 hour. No attempts made to minimize my risks or finding a solution.

5. Making an attempt to file a complaint through Air Asia web site, impossible to submit, error message pops up every time.

My flight from bnglr to hyd in 6/05/17 scheduled to departure at 2:35pm has been rescheduled to departure at 11:10pm
I want to reach hyd by 5 to Maxx
Please call n see what can be done
I m in deep trouble
Can u arrange for a flight before that cause I have a work n no point of waiting so long.
Please connect to me asap as I need a flight and I can't afford to book on my own

Dukacita bahawa, adik saya muhammad nufail bin salehuddin perwira telah terlepas kapal ak6430 dari kuala kumpur ke kota baharu jam 6.30 am pada 4/5/2017 disebabkan kurangnya pengetahuan pekerja airasia dan polis bantuan.

Saya telah check in kan untuk adik saya melalui web check in pada 28/4/2017, booking number shc2mc. Dan print bording pass padanya.

Setibanya di klia2 untuk melepasi polis bantuan untuk masuk ke dalam balai perlepasan, polis bantuan telah menghalang dia dan meminta untuk menunjukkan tiket, adik saya menunjukkan boarding pass yang di print. Malangnya dengan pengetahuan yang amat tidak boleh diterima polis bantuan menghalang dan meminta dia print tiket, adik saya bertegas mengatakan inilah tiketnya. Tapi amatlah dikesali polis bantuan tetap menghalang untuk masuk ke balai perlepasan.

Jadi adik saya dengan panik pergi ke mesin self check in dan cuba untuk print tiket yang dimaksudkan oleh polis bantuan yang tidak boleh diterima pengetahuannya. Selepas gagal untuk print tiket di mesin, adik saya terpaksa beratur dan menunggu untuk ke kaunter dan malangnya apabila tiba gilirannya, pegawai airasia dengan mudah menjawab "encik sudah lambat perlu beli tiket lain". Sedangkan waktu itu kapal terbang belum lagi berlepas dan masih ada 30minit. Amatlah tidak diterima dan tidak boleh difikir bagaimana pendedahan ilmu yang pihak airasia berikan pada polis bantuan dan pekerja. Tidak dapat sebarang bagasi yang perlu di masuk ke ruang kargo. Hanyalah bagasi kecil yang dibawa untuk dibawa naik ke kapal.

Pihak airasia perlu menimbang tara perkara ini. Kami mengalami kerugian hampir rm300 disebabkan perkara ini. Kami terpaksa membeli tiket baru sedangkan bukan disebabkan kesalahan kami.

Kami berharap pihak airasia bertanggungjawab atas perkara ini.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I want to file an official complain that my luggage was not on board during my April 2017 trip to South Korea, I & my wife was without our luggage throughout our entire 7 days vacation due to negligence and lack of professional in performing his tasks of this counter staff. We later found out that our luggage were not tagged accordingly to our passport holder.
On 15th-April-2017, we are taking flight no D7504 (Booking no: QJW1WQ) from KUL to Incheon International Airport with departure time at 08:00 am. We have 8 adults & one kid travelling. We handed over all our passports to the staff at the counter to assists us on the boarding pass & to check in our luggage at around 6:00 am. After finished tagging our luggage, he told us that one of our passport holder needs a Visa to enter Korea due to she is a Vietnamese which meant that we had only obtained 8 boarding pass out of 9 person. Her husband & her kid decided not to board the plane as she will be alone in Malaysia. So we requested the counter staff to locate & retrieve their luggage since they are not boarding but our request was been declined. We had to accepted it & proceeded with our trip. We though this a bad day for all of us due to the visa issue but to our next horror, our luggage was not on board the plane when we arrived at Incheon Airport.
During this trip, we had to spend money to purchase clothing, undergarments, toiletries & luggage but worst of all were the hassle and anxiousness that we had to go through instead of enjoying our vacation.
I had actually filed an E-form about our issue under case no: CAS-[protected]-7R714F on 21-Apr-2017 but I had yet to receive your feedback on this matter.
I hope your customer service staff would review this matter and provide me a letter of explanation at the soonest, I will needs this to make a claim through my Travel Insurance.

Last but not least, please do not take each complain or feedback lightly as these will reflect what kind and type of services Airasia is providing to their customer. I shall reserve the right to seek alternative ways till I have a satisfactory answer and feedback, thanks.

Regards,
Mike Wong
05-May-2017

I am appalled with the service I received on your flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the D7 312 flight on 26th April 2017.

Myself and my husband were passengers on this flight and had upgraded our seats to sit in the quiet zone before we made our way to the airport, and at check in we were not issued with new boarding passes by your staff or able to use the check in machines.
When we boarded the plane, it was one of the most embarrassing encounters we have ever had and your staff are some of the rudest people we have ever met. We showed Justin- Lee, one of your staff members on the plane our boarding tickets and the confirmation on my phone regarding the seat change and were told to sit in our original seats in row 29.
We were not happy with the attitude we rude response we received and headed to row 29 to find someone else sitting in them of course! We struggled to get back to the front and other passengers barged passed us as we were in the walkway, and people signed and tutted.
When we got back to the front where your staff were, we were told to wait by the door like 2 school children and we were utterly embarrassed as other passengers walked on and looked at us as if we had done something wrong.
After about 5 minutes, we were told to go and sit in the seats we had booked whilst your staff check with ground staff and we were made to feel and treated as if we were lying just to sit in this cabin.
Whilst we were sat in our seats waiting for the confirmation, several people from the standard economy cabin decided to move into this area without paying for the upgrade and made a lot of noise. Me and my husband were sick and tired by this time as we were both ill and wanted to try and sleep before we landed.

Your crew members are unprofessional, rude and inconsiderate and I am writing this as part of an official complaint against him and the whole team on that flight. To make things worse, when the flight meals were being given out me and my husband were completely ignored and left without our food whilst everyone else in this area was eating! We waited around 15 minutes before I had to go and prompt your staff, who asked me if I wanted to buy a meal! Absolutely disgraceful attitudes, and not one single apology.

It was the most disgusting services I have ever received on a flight and I will not be flying with your airline ever again. We are avid travelers and frequent flyers, but we will be making an extra effort to ensure we NEVER fly with you ever again and fly with anyone else when we are in Asia.
We will be advising our family and friends of the disgusting service we received from this flight and ensuring nobody is treated like this and avoids your airline.

As blog writers, we will be reviewing this experience and ensuring it is posted online to ensure people are aware of what they are signing up to if they decide to fly with you.

In terms of a resolution, I would accept a full refund as well as compensation for the stress we both encountered on this flight.

Aneesa

I have cancelled my flight in Dec 2016 after consult with your staff via AirAsia Live chat and I have been advise to fill up e-form which I have done 4 times. But till today, I have not received single cents from AirAsia.
Please revert by this week otherwise I will report to press.

Booking number VMNJ5H
16/12/2016 10:50 am KUL - MFM AK8320
19/12/2016 03:50 pm MFM - KUL AK8321

1st logged number: CAS-[protected]-1J0LMP CRM:0001989 & CAS-[protected]-HY4B53 CRM: 0001890