On Singapore Airlines flight leaving Bangalore
Late Wednesday 2/12/14
Well I am furious. The purple carryon bag was too heavy to carry on the plane, Singapore Airlines told me at the ticket counter, so I had to check it in. They told me that if I could put all the stuff in my two check-in bags there would be no extra charge. I said I can't. The two check-in bags were stuffed to the gills.
I took out my computer and my eyedrops and said go ahead and check the purple bag, I'll pay the extra fee.
I figured it would be 50 bucks, maybe a hundred if really excessive.
When they told me it would be a little more than 2400 rupees, I thought that wasn't too bad at all, only about 40 US dollars. They would only take rupees, and I only had a couple hundred on me, so they took me over to forex (foreign currency exchange). That is where I learned they were charging me more than 24000 rupees.
Yes, twenty-four thousand rupees. Four hundred US dollars. About 450 bucks actually. I started to cry.
"I don't have that much money," I told them, which is true. I only have about 400 bucks cash on me. And when the forex guy said he would take my credit card, all of a sudden the price went up to 27300 rupees.
I told the staff to take me to the airport gift shop and I would buy a bigger suitcase and transfer everything, but she refused because my two bags were already checked in and could not be called back. i thought that was s bunch of hooey and said so. Not very pleasantly or quietly, either.
In the end I had to buy 25000 rupees (they knocked off the 2300 rupees extra charge for using the credit card) and I was so pissed that when Singapore Airlines tried to give me a few rupees back in change, I told them to "keep your stolen money."
I have never been so helplessly furious in my life. I really was in tears. I don't mind paying extra baggage fees -- I would not have complained about even a hundred bucks -- but four hundred and fifty bucks is extreme and exorbitant.
I suppose it comes as no surprise that even though I'm so upset, i nevertheless have been able to enjoy one of the best airline meals ever. It was one of the special-order Indian vegetarian meals, and I wish Mayu were here, not just to tell me what some of the dishes were, but because the Wrath of Mayu is a mighty and fearsome thing to behold.
Just imagining the unholy hell she would have given them over the excess baggage fee is making me feel better.
Late Wednesday 2/12/14
Well I am furious. The purple carryon bag was too heavy to carry on the plane, Singapore Airlines told me at the ticket counter, so I had to check it in. They told me that if I could put all the stuff in my two check-in bags there would be no extra charge. I said I can't. The two check-in bags were stuffed to the gills.
I took out my computer and my eyedrops and said go ahead and check the purple bag, I'll pay the extra fee.
I figured it would be 50 bucks, maybe a hundred if really excessive.
When they told me it would be a little more than 2400 rupees, I thought that wasn't too bad at all, only about 40 US dollars. They would only take rupees, and I only had a couple hundred on me, so they took me over to forex (foreign currency exchange). That is where I learned they were charging me more than 24000 rupees.
Yes, twenty-four thousand rupees. Four hundred US dollars. About 450 bucks actually. I started to cry.
"I don't have that much money," I told them, which is true. I only have about 400 bucks cash on me. And when the forex guy said he would take my credit card, all of a sudden the price went up to 27300 rupees.
I told the staff to take me to the airport gift shop and I would buy a bigger suitcase and transfer everything, but she refused because my two bags were already checked in and could not be called back. i thought that was s bunch of hooey and said so. Not very pleasantly or quietly, either.
In the end I had to buy 25000 rupees (they knocked off the 2300 rupees extra charge for using the credit card) and I was so pissed that when Singapore Airlines tried to give me a few rupees back in change, I told them to "keep your stolen money."
I have never been so helplessly furious in my life. I really was in tears. I don't mind paying extra baggage fees -- I would not have complained about even a hundred bucks -- but four hundred and fifty bucks is extreme and exorbitant.
I suppose it comes as no surprise that even though I'm so upset, i nevertheless have been able to enjoy one of the best airline meals ever. It was one of the special-order Indian vegetarian meals, and I wish Mayu were here, not just to tell me what some of the dishes were, but because the Wrath of Mayu is a mighty and fearsome thing to behold.
Just imagining the unholy hell she would have given them over the excess baggage fee is making me feel better.
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