India travelers stuck at home

Philadelphia: A meeting was held Wednesday night for customers of a company called "Logos Travel." They thought they bought airline tickets to India.
Those customers tell Action News they were heading to weddings, religious ceremonies and family emergencies.Now, it appears the trips may never happen. After paying Logos Travel $4,000, Sohil Patel is finding himself stuck with no ticket, and empty pockets.
"I have to go to India, that's why I bought it," Patel said. "There's an emergency in India, my dad is sick, I have to go."
Patel and many others tell Action News that Logos provided them with confirmation numbers for plane tickets on Jet Airways. But those tickets were cancelled, or never bought in the first place.
Jay Patel, and others, paid Logos twenty to thirty thousand dollars to take their entire families to India.
"It's very frustrating, that's my life savings. It's $22,000. It takes a lot of time to save that money," Jay Patel said. "So I went to a different travel agent, and they said they can't do anything because all of the other airlines are booked."
Philadelphia police have been swamped with complaints about Logos, and officers are investigating. They interviewed the owner, took business records and computers in for evidence Tuesday night.
Action News wasn't able to reach the owner of Logos, but an employee who said he wasn't authorized to talk did say, "We don't know yet, it was some kind of embezzlement in here by one of the workers. Police are investigating, we're investigating, and we'll get to the bottom of it."
Meanwhile, Jet Airways said Logos paid a third company called Arc to buy tickets from the airline, but then defaulted on its payments, so Arc cancelled the customers' tickets.
03/12/08 David Henry & Nydia Han/6abc.com, USA

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