A Greek airline has discovered itself on the centre of a social media storm after it misplaced a blind rescue kitten throughout a transit cease in Athens, and 5 days later, there’s nonetheless no signal of what has occurred to the lacking feline.
Rodri the cat, was being rescued together with two different kittens by Munich-based Mary Gomes, who was travelling with the three cats from Chania on the Greek island of Crete to Germany with a brief cease in Athens.
Mary obtained a certificates to say that the three cats had been loaded with out incident within the cargo for the primary flight to Athens however on arrival within the Greek capital, Mary found that the lid to Rodri’s field had been broken and the cat had managed to flee.
Where precisely Rodri managed to flee, nevertheless, stays a thriller. Mary was travelling with the kittens on March 8 and there was no signal of Rodri ever since.
“Everything was fine at the check-in in Chania,” Mary defined in a Facebook submit. “The boxes were new and without any faults.”
“At Athens airport, after the first landing, I was called to check my 3 transport boxes. One of them was so damaged from the top that my kitten had run away. According to the Athens airport ground staff, the 3 transport boxes had arrived this way and one of them without an animal.”
Mary continued: “The member of staff who informed me even made fun of the situation and me, not realising that I understood some of what she was saying to the colleague. None of the staff involved supported me; there was no empathy”.
With a social media backlash towards Aegean beginning to build, the underfire airline has been pressured to publicly deal with the problem, saying in a press release publicly that it’s “deeply concerned” about Rodri’s disappearance and is “actively working with airport authorities and our team to do everything possible to locate Rodri”.
“From the moment we realized that Rodri was missing, we swiftly launched extensive efforts, coordinating with airport authorities, and are deploying our dedicated airport personnel in search of the kitten,” the assertion continued.
“Despite our exhaustive attempts, we haven’t yet located Rodri, but we are fully committed to persisting in our search efforts”.
Aegean Airlines has denied studies circulating on social media that it provided Mary simply €100 as compensation for the lacking kitten. The declare was linked to a pretend account that presupposed to be Aegean, a spokesperson for the airline defined.
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