{"id":56923,"date":"2016-07-25T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56923"},"modified":"2016-07-24T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T00:10:57","slug":"emirates-airlines-apologises-to-speaker-hospital-says-its-a-bug-not-a-heart-ailment-news-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/25\/emirates-airlines-apologises-to-speaker-hospital-says-its-a-bug-not-a-heart-ailment-news-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Airlines apologises to Speaker, hospital says it\u2019s a bug not a heart ailment\u2026\u2026..News Opinion \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

What an insult to a senior politician ,Ex minister ,Speaker of the house ,father in law of a minister ,ex\u00a0 deputy leader of the ruling party and a gentleman \u00a0( who didi not make noise but peacefully waited for 10 more hours to fly out )?<\/p>\n

Do we remember the case when Mr Hill ( who went Down-Hill later ) \u00a0of Emirates Airline who was running the JV with Sri Lankan refusing to allocate seats to entourage of the previous president ??<\/p>\n

Hasn\u2019t Emirate learnt a lesson when Ex-HE kicked them out of the JV with Sri Lankan ?<\/p>\n

That is how we have to be firm .We may be a small nation but we should have our pride ,Just because our poor men and women sweat out to build their country and wash the As..s of the Arab \u00a0masters ,we should not be treated like this.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine if Sri Lankan\u00a0 off loads Mr Maktoum from the flight ,he would have kicked our all our workers from UAE !<\/p>\n

Once I was also badly treated in London by Kuwait Airways staff and I have them tight and refused to fly in that airline ever .<\/p>\n

Last week my daughter\u00a0 and her husband flew by Singapore Airline to Brisbane in Economy Class ,they had overweighing baggage and yet they allowed without charging .During the flight her husband found that he had a stained\u00a0 sleeping pillow \/cushion on his seat\u00a0 and he requested the stewardess to replace .She apologised profusely and replaced the cushion \u00a0with an envelope of 75 S$ as a gesture of goodwill.<\/p>\n

My daughter\u2019s earphone was not working and she complained .They found that the plug of the earphone fitted\u00a0 to the seat was not\u00a0 functioning .They offered a different seat but she declined as she was sitting with her husband .They presented her with a 75S$ voucher again ><\/p>\n

This is how proper airline tries to maintain their good name .
\nEmirate should offer the Speaker free business class ticket for the next whole year ( and even the whole cabinet so that Ministers like Hon Kabir Hashim does not have to fly economy class!) \u00a0if they want to really apologize ..<\/p>\n

If not impose a ruling that government officers does not ever fly in Emirate in the future !<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera What an insult to a senior politician ,Ex minister ,Speaker of the house ,father in law of a minister ,ex\u00a0 deputy leader of the ruling party and a gentleman \u00a0( who didi not make noise but peacefully waited for 10 more hours to fly out )? Do we remember the case when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}