Comedian and actor Vir Das criticized Air India on social media. He express his frustration after he pre-booked a wheelchair for his wife. Das, 45, said his wife unable to climbing down the plane stepladder with a fractured foot after the Air India flight landed in Delhi. Das stated that paying ₹50,000 for to seat, they ended up with damaged tables, broken leg rests, and a seat caught in the reclined function.
Why Vir Das criticized Air India
Vir Das defined himself as an Air India loyalist who disliked having to name the airline out in public. In an X submission shared early this morning, the Emmy prevailing comedian wrote: “I’m a lifetime loyalist. I accept as true with you’ve got the best cabin crew in the sky, this post hurt me to write.”
Das defined that he and his wife had booked Pranaam meet-and-greet services and asked for a wheelchair. They need wheelchair because his wife is convalescing from a foot fracture. They were flying to Delhi with tickets costs at ₹50,000 per seat – so they ended up paying out ₹1 lakh overall.
Frustration On lack of wheelchair assistance
“Two hours late, we get off in Delhi, and we told it’s a stepladder. Again wheelchair and Encalm pre-booked,” wrote when Vir Das criticized Air India. Seeing no wheelchair in sight, he asked the flight attendants to assist his wife whilst he took care of the bags. Their reaction? “Silence and a clueless look at each other.”
At the top of the stepladder, the actor-comic once more asked the floor team for help, only to be unnoticed. “We step off the aircraft to the top of the ladder. I ask an Air India male floor workforce member to assist us, looks at me, shrugs, and ignores me,” Das recalled.
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