Honey we have shrunk the luggage!

Ahmedabad: Patricia Lee Dorfff had packed her bags in New York, picking only the best from her wardrobe, for she was coming to Gujarat to attend an international conference. However, on the day of the conference organised at Patan in north Gujarat, she ended up wearing cloths borrowed from the host's wife.
Dorff, part of the council of foreign relations at New York, landed at the Ahmedabad international airport on January 1 only to find her bag, carrying all her clothes, missing. She was here to participate in the conference on 'Role of Gujarati Diaspora' held as part of the celebrations of 50 years of Gujarat's foundation, the next day.
When she complained to Air India officials, who first said they could do nothing, but later traced the suitcase to Delhi where Dorff had changed flights. They told her the bag would take at least two days to reach Ahmedabad. Left with no choice, Dorff had to borrow clothes from the conference organiser's wife.
In another similar case, borrowing clothes was not even an option for another victim of the careless airline, Shivani Patel, 28. The event that she had to attend was nothing less of her own wedding. She was to get married at Anand and had shopped big time for the D day but all in vain. Shivani flew on a Chicago-Delhi-Ahmedabad flight and the airline staff misplaced her bag, carrying the wedding dress, while transferring them from the jumbo plane to a smaller one in Delhi. Air India officials assured that she would get her bags at her relative's place in Anand the next day but that did not happen. Shivani had to go shopping for a new wedding dress.
11/01/11 Ankur Jain/Times of India

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Categories: Air India Jan 2011, Airports Jan 2011