Disgraceful customer service
The flights were fine, but I was extremely disappointed and frustrated with the customer service staff at Aegean Airlines. Firstly, the staff member clearly wasn’t reading my emails, as they kept calling me ‘Mr’, when I continually signed my emails as ‘Miss’, and they only corrected themselves when I called them out on it. Over the course of one week, I flew two flights Aegean. And from those two flights, I lost three expensive locks from my checked in baggage. When I reported this to the customer service staff online, I did not ask for reimbursement, I just wanted an explanation as to how this could have happened. At this stage I had been travelling around Europe for 5 weeks with many different airlines, and not once did I lose a single lock. Then, I flew with Aegean twice and lost three locks?? Seemed pretty suss, especially considering there was no physical damage to my bag as a result. The locks were also very expensive, strong locks that I have also used on other overseas trips, and not once did one get broken off or lost. The customer service team were completely useless, and I am still disgusted by their responses, or lack there of. No matter what I said, especially when simply asking how this could have occurred, and how could I know for sure that a staff member/unauthorised person hadn’t broken into my bag (considering there was no damage to the bag to indicate they were broken off by accident), the customer service representative continually stated the same thing over and over again, speaking as a robot. This was their response every time: ‘Based on our previous communication, we assume no liability for specific types of damage, including broken/missing lockers. Therefore, we count on your understanding that we are not able to respond favorably to your request’. The only other statement they provided was: ‘your baggages when you travel are absolutely safe with our colleagues’. Even thought they could/would not confirm how the bags are supposedly safe when the locks that are meant to protect the bags and it’s contents were removed? I was not asking for compensation (despite them being expensive locks), I just wanted to know what happened, and got nothing back. There is no way it is just a coincidence that I lost three locks with their airline; one lock lost I would understand, but not three. Clearly something dodgy has happened and there has been a security breach, and the airline are refusing to say or do anything. It is completely unacceptable.