An AirAsia passenger posted a screenshot of a pop-up on the airline’s website which showed his flight schedule from Bengaluru to Bengaluru. The post went viral as netizens reacted hilariously to the technical glitch.
The AirAsia passenger tried booking a flight from Hyderabad to Bengaluru. However, he was left baffled after a ‘technical glitch’ showed his flight- I51543 taking off from Kempegowda International Airport in Hyderabad (written Bengaluru in the ticket) and landing at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport in Kolkata (Bengaluru yet again as the landing destination).
Here’s the screenshot of the ticket posted by Auditya Venkatesh Twitter
The Viral Tweet
The passenger- Auditya Venkatesh- tweeted a screenshot of the flight schedule visible on the reputable airline’s website. The post went viral in no time. Posting the screenshot, Venkatesh asks, “Hi AirAsia India this is really confusing. So if I book this ticket, where will I really go? And where will I leave from?”
AirAsia responded to the tweet, “Hi Auditya, there might be a technical glitch. Kindly refresh the page and do a fresh booking.”
To this Venkatesh replied, “The fact that it's a glitch is obvious. It did the same thing again, it was to edit an existing booking via the chrome browser on an Android phone. It still keeps showing the same thing. I still went ahead and booked it, because it was a last-minute change. Fingers crossed.”
Auditya further posted in a separate tweet, “The codes are the only correct thing. Haha. The flight I was trying to book was from Hyderabad to Bengaluru.”
One user said, “This is a genuine service request but feels like a meme.”
Venkatesh responded to this, “We're in the Musk melon Twitter now, the world is a meme.”
Another user tweeted on the post, mentioning the distance between Bengaluru city and the airport. He wrote, “Bangalore airport is in Hyderabad only. What's the confusion.”
“At the cost of 1 ticket you can visit 3 cities.. what else do you wish for?”, wrote another Twitter user.
