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Swiss International Air Lines racism

Following my recent experience with Swiss Air staff I will no longer be flying Swiss Air for business or pleasure. I believe the woman who charged me an excess of 375 CHF while my colleagues who had similar snowboard bags paid nothing. The only difference between my colleagues and myself is that I am black but my colleagues are all white. This type of racist discrimination is not acceptable in the 21st Century and so I am complaining. I flew from Zurich to London February 2009. Be warned and choose another airline.

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mac.br86
, CH
Jan 11, 2013 5:52 pm EST

do you have any update on this? I had a similar issue I would like to check if I could have the same right.

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D30
, CH
Nov 11, 2010 3:00 pm EST

Ridiculous. People have to pay overweight baggage charges regardless of the colour of their skin!
Grow up and realise that nationality or skin colour don't guarantee anybody an easier time!
Again, completely outrageous!

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kweetje
, BE
Jun 18, 2009 3:24 pm EDT

We (our diving club) are starting an action in court just now for arbitrary and discriminatory handling of luggage right now.
Since Swiss Air doesn't even react to our mails, we wil be charging them 1.000.000 € in court.
Our lawyer gives us not 99% but full 100% certainty of success and is taking the case on a percent basis.
We don't even have to pay !

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Swiss International Air Lines lost luggage

My husband left home on Monday January 5 2009 at 5:39 Frankfurt Airport, for a flight that should have left at 7:30, after 2, 3 hours of delays and then a complete change of planes, Swiss Air lost his luggage. He is now in Zurich and has to buy 2 new suits, shoes and underwear for his business meetings.
He has been calling from Zurich and I from Germany. The service number is a machine and no one is getting back to us with information on the lost luggage. Please contact me at my email address [protected]@2020CiE.de or Joerg Franke 0049 [protected] better yet, call my husband on his phone. He will be more than happy to hear from you. Who is going to reimburst us for this unexpected expense of clothing?
E. Terrelonge Griffith de Franke
Germany 1/6/2008

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Swiss International Air Lines no full refund given

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I called Swiss air Friday sept 5th and booked 6 tickets from Copenhagen to Miami for June 10th 2009. It was a swedish number and after you dialed the number you were connected to another number where they were speaking English. I told the woman I was talking to that I wanted the price in swedish kronor. She said the price was 25600. It sounded good to me, so I booked 6 tickets. I was told I had until Sunday to confirm the tickets. I called back on Saturday and confirmed the tickets, but were told the price was in danish kronor. I protested and they let me talk to their supervisor. She insisted that the original price was in Danish kroner. I let it go, and she connected me to another man who informed me that the price would be approximately 30 000. He couldn't give me the exact figure. I said fine and booked the tickets and put
money in my bank account.After that I called Swiss EVERY day and wondered why the money hadn't been drawn from our account and why no E-tickets were being sent. They said it was a long waiting line and the tickets were on their way. The 16th of September 28 000 sek were drawn from our account and 5 E-tickets were sent to our email adress. I called Swiss again and they said that my name was too long and couldn't fit on the ticket. The next time I called I was told there weren't enough money in our bank account. We made an agreement that they would draw the money on the 19th of Sept. I put in more money and waited, but nothing happened. On the 23rd of sept in the morning when i looked in my bank account I saw that the 28 000 had been returned to our account. I didn't know what to believe. I was frustrated because it was taking too long to get the tickets, so I booked 6 identical tickets with another internet agency. Everything went smoothly and I received our E tickets within minutes and the money was drawn from our account immediately. I called Swiss and told them I wanted to cancel the original 5 tickets. Since the money was redeposited to our account I thought the deal was cancelled. Since no money transaction had taken place I thought everything would be ok. Unfortunately I was told that I was only elligible to receive a minimal refund. They insisted that the money was already taken from our account
and that they had received authorization from our bank. Unfortunately they were right, cause when I checked our account on the 24th of Sept the money from the original tickets were withdrawn from the account and I had minus 22 000 sek in my account. I had now paid for 5 + 6 tickets! I called Swiss and tried to reason with them that I felt that it was their fault that the tickets took so long to get I felt like didn't have a choice but to use another agency and I felt I was entitled to a full refund, especially considering the new tickets were also with Swiss. They refused. I don't think it should take that long to get some airline tickets and we didn't even get the full amount of tickets we ordered. Anyway, I'm curious as what you have to say on the subject.

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MThielemans
Hoboken, BE
Jan 22, 2023 1:07 am EST
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We had a dammaged luggage upon arrival in Mallorca.

Your “handler” was going to take care of it

After several mails we got a VOUCHER far under real value to buy a very expensive new luggage at your “handler” website

Nice way to steal from your clients who have a real complaint

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IrisSeiffer
, DE
Jul 29, 2019 6:01 pm EDT

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I sent a complaint yesterday as to my flight from Stuttgart to Dubai but did not receive and reference number. Please re-confirm that you have received the same. Thanks.
Iris Seiffer / iris.seiffer@object-carpet.com / +[protected] mobile

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Hector Sandoval
, US
Nov 12, 2018 11:59 pm EST

HB# [protected] Damaged Cartons

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aditi gupta
, US
Aug 28, 2018 6:45 pm EDT

I am trying to follow up on customer feedback email I'd from last one month on the stuff missing from my bag while traveling from India to Chicago but did not receive any response or help. I am a very upset customer. Please respond back on my email urgently and compensate for the missing items.

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Hector Sandoval
, US
Jan 06, 2017 8:07 pm EST

HB# [protected] Damaged Cartons

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Benny-E
manchester, GB
Jan 29, 2013 8:57 am EST
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Dear Madame/Sir,

This email concerning an unsatisfied flight is from a customer of your company. I chose Swissair because I always heard about the reputation regarding your services' quality and the exactitude in regards to the time schedule. But my last trip with your company was really annoying if not horrible.

My flight from Manchester to Zurich on 7th December (flight 391 at 8:40)was delayed for a long time so that the one from Zurich to my final destination Beijing was missed as well( flight 196 at 12:30). All this leaded to the addition of a flight to Hongkong which was not supposed to exist.

Moreover, I have waited at the airport for more than 10 hours which reversely influenced my original plan. I had to therefore reschedule all my meetings in Beijing which caused both material and immaterial losses.

Not being clear nor content about all these changes, I would like to ask for your explicit explanation, apologize, and reimbursement. As a responsible international company, reply from your part will be appreciated.

Yi Ban
by28282003@hotmail.com

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jfrs1
Miami, US
Jun 29, 2011 2:49 am EDT

Hello Sir/Madam.

I have been waiting patiently for an excuse or apology for the situation of my last flight with Swiss air (2nd incident of the last 6 months)

This time, I booked a flight from Miami-Zurich and from Zurich to Stuttgart. After 9 hours flight, I got to Zurich and my flight to Stuttgart was cancelled, because there was not enough people accordingly to Swiss to make the flight (So 25 people approximately were transfer to Stuttgart by bus adding to my 9 hours flight 5 hours more) for a total of 14 hour for a transfer from Miami to Stuttgart Germany.

I was given no explanation, but that the best and fasted way to get to Stuttgart was by 3 hours bus ride, including 2 hours of waiting...

I AM REQUESTING A FULL REFUND OF MY TRIP ASAP... I NEED IT BY YESTERDAY, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE, I PAID TO GET TO STUTTGARD (GERMANY BY PLANE NOT BY BUS)

This is the second situation that happens to me with Swiss, last time I was forced to pay a difference in money because one of your agents made a mistake and charged me less money that he should!
As an apology Swiss offered me 5, 000 miles which I gladly decline and asked them to keep it...

I will take it upon myself to post in any website in US, just how INCOMPETENT SWISS AIRLINE IS... We are used to another kind of customer service and I think the American public deserves to know.

Thanks and regards,

Juan F. Rodriguez

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Vikrant_321
, CH
Aug 23, 2010 12:50 pm EDT

The same instance happened to me. I called the Swiss Air several times to check the refund status, but each time their answer was that the refund is on the way. Now it has been 5-6 weeks, today when I called the operator kept me on hold forever. I think if the ticket is cancelled around 1.5 to 2 months before the travel date, then there should be no problem in refund.

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