Abu Dhabi: Indian community leaders have been told their complaints about a major airline reducing its baggage allowance will be considered by their homeland’s government.
The heads of five Indian social and cultural centres from across the UAE met civil aviation, cabinet and overseas Indian affairs ministers in an effort to get Air India Express to raise its baggage allowance back up to 30 kilograms per passenger, after reducing it to 20kg on Thursday.
The budget airline serves many of the UAE’s low-paid Indian workers, who are furious at the decision to reduce the baggage allowance and charge Dh50 a person for the 10kg difference.
The airline has said it would reduce this cost to Dh30 for 10kg but this is still likely to be unacceptable to the huge number of Indians who travel between the UAE and their home country daily.
Shibu Varghese, the general secretary of Abu Dhabi Malayalee Samajam cultural association, said: “We heard about it – whatever the charges, there is no justification.
“We want these charges to be scrapped totally and 30kg should be without any charge.”
If the airline goes ahead with imposing the charge, he said the Indian community would opt for alternative airlines.
26/08/13 The National
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The heads of five Indian social and cultural centres from across the UAE met civil aviation, cabinet and overseas Indian affairs ministers in an effort to get Air India Express to raise its baggage allowance back up to 30 kilograms per passenger, after reducing it to 20kg on Thursday.
The budget airline serves many of the UAE’s low-paid Indian workers, who are furious at the decision to reduce the baggage allowance and charge Dh50 a person for the 10kg difference.
The airline has said it would reduce this cost to Dh30 for 10kg but this is still likely to be unacceptable to the huge number of Indians who travel between the UAE and their home country daily.
Shibu Varghese, the general secretary of Abu Dhabi Malayalee Samajam cultural association, said: “We heard about it – whatever the charges, there is no justification.
“We want these charges to be scrapped totally and 30kg should be without any charge.”
If the airline goes ahead with imposing the charge, he said the Indian community would opt for alternative airlines.
26/08/13 The National
