Expat pilot’s tantrums delay flight

Chennai: An expat pilot with Air India who was flying as a passenger on an Air India Chennai to Mumbai flight on Thursday morning delayed the flight thanks to his starry tantrums.
Aronakvic has been with the company for almost six months now and was flying along with another Indian pilot to Mumbai. When he presented his economy class ticket at the check-in counter and asked for an upgrade to J Class, he was politely refused one as there was no such facility for his ticket. Aronakvic didn’t give up. After boarding the aircraft, instead of going to his 24D seat, he went and occupied the 1C seat of J Class. “The cabin crew then checked his boarding pass and requested him to take the allotted economy seat. But he wouldn’t budge. The cabin crew checked with the captain of the flight who came back negative again. But Aronakvic still didn’t give up. He asked for a representative from commercials team and requested his upgrade again. The answer was still negative. By then it was 7am and time for the flight to depart. All other 136 passengers had boarded the flight and finally the commercials manager was called in who again informed the expat that the upgrade on his ticket was not possible. Aronakvic budged from the seat only after the commercial manager almost decided to de-plane him.
23/10/09 ExpressBuzz

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