Sunday, July 07, 2013

The banana republic airlines

After one week in Sarajevo , I was heading back to Beirut with our national carrier MEA (middle east airlines )/ air Liban here is my experience :

I arrived early to check in desk in order to ask for a business class upgrade. I explained to the lady my condition (hemiplegic) she agreed to do so was so happy to comeback on a large comfortable seat so I head quickly to the gate arriving to the boarding point I handed my ticket to the lady :
 She said oops  I'm sorry sir u have been downgraded to economy due to captain request when I asked for the reason she answered u have to talk to the captain. Once on board I asked for the explanation from pilot he literally said ana ma khassneh( not my concern) to my knowledge a pilot has an ultimate power on his aircraft he is the legal D.A . On the plane 
Gladly my zgharta friends intervened to let him know they won't accept this, magically the hostess told me its ok u can sit in business
Here is what really happened( got it from the hostess when we insisted on getting an explanation:
One of the relatives of the cabin crew was travelling on the flight so she decided to upgrade him giving him my place!! ( wrong shot honey) 
Luckily my mum is an ex MEA employee and asked to speak to captain again and asked for his opinion on what happened he said :
What do iu want me to do ? Sue her??
Here I'm not mentioning the bad service on board!!! The ultimate chicken or basta seyyyr
And I still wonder how they choose the hostesses( a hybrid specie of monkey and woman with alien  tattooed eyebrows  scary  
One ore thing fragile cargo arrived broken !
In one word : miserable