Oct 14, 2006 10:59 PM
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About my experiences on the flight I took with Air France flight from Atlanta - Paris - Bombay and back. I would suggest that you try to avoid this flight if you dont like your baggage being delayed. They seriously need to stop the discrimination. They treat Indians like garbage, this is just my opinion. Please read further:
I am not usually a complainer but my experience on this flight was not up to the mark. The inflight services were not bad. I have no complaints about that. The most complaint I had was about how they treated indians at the airport and their baggage handling abilities.
- Discrimination of Indians: I usually understand some kinda discrimination as we are from an outside country. That is understandable but outright discrimination is what I cannot stand. Charle de Gaulle airport is the most pathetic airport on the face of this planet. Its even worse than the Mumbai Airport. This is coming from an Indian.
The french staff at the airport treats Indians like shit. They somehow dont like us, I dont know why? I and my other fellow Indian travellers were seriously discriminated. When we were boarding the plane from paris to atlanta, at the flight deck they had a security check. Which is not normal first of all, I understand with all the hijacking thing going on. But what go to me was they were not checking all the caucasian people boarding the aircraft and only dark skinned people where checked. Including the ladies. When I asked the security guard that why those people did not have to go through security check he was like they are being checked. I was like they are in a line boarding the aircraft and we all (mostly indians) have to go through the security check.
- Baggage Handling Abilities: My baggage did not arrive until a day later both time when I travelled from paris to mumbai and back to US from paris to atlanta. If I was the only person, that is understandable. I had 10 other people who I could count did not even receive on bag. I have travelled by Air India and even they did not have that problem. All the staff would say is you will receive your baggage by mail. No apologies or nothing. Everybody I knew was complaining about their service.
