KF tie-up snap: Family stranded at Seoul airport

Mumbai: Kingfisher Airlines let its passengers down yet again leaving them stranded at Seoul airport for a day on February 5.
Four passengers, all members of the same family, were not intimated by the airline that its alliance with Korean Air has been cancelled by the International Air Traffic Association (IATA), and that the flight ticket issued by Kingfisher for the Seoul-Hong Kong flight on the Korean airways would stand annulled.
The passengers reached the airport and were denied boarding by the staff of the Korean airlines. Eventually, they had to buy new tickets to reach Hong Kong and take their connecting flight to India.
A businessman from Goa, Ramkishan Chopra, had booked four Goa-Seoul-Goa tickets from Kingfisher airline office. Chopra had travelled to Seoul with his parents and sister due to a medical emergency in the first week of January. Ramkishan's father, Gangasharan (85), underwent brain surgery while his mother, Vinita (80), had a spine operation.
They were due to take their flight back to India on February 5. "Kingfisher had booked them on a Korean Air flight (KE 619) from Seoul to Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, we were supposed to board another Kingfisher flight to Mumbai and then Goa," Ramkishan said.
08/02/12 Times of India

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