Black summer for triathletes with airlines

{wbamp-meta name"image" url"images/stories/noticias_08/pablo-dapena-perdida-bicicleta.jpg" width"300" height"150"} The last few months have been difficult for many triathletes and paratriathletes because the airlines are losing or breaking their bikes One of the moments where a triathlete spends the most nerves and insecurities is while waiting to pick up their bike after a flight. In many cases those minutes take forever, believing that your bike has not arrived, but most of the time it does. When this does not happen, they are hard and stressful moments, having to make a claim for the loss of luggage, notify us on Twitter, make phone calls, etc... The worst thing is that there is always little information that is provided to a triathlete when his bike has been lost and this causes even more moments of nerves. Another difficult moment is finding a knock in the box, where you can see the "treatment" that the bike has received and that in many cases leads to something breaking when opening the bicycle case. These are some of the cases of triathletes affected during the last months due to delays, losses or breakages of their bicycles. Roberto Sanchez Mantecón He spent more than 30 hours without knowing anything about where his bike was, on a flight from Alicante-Barcelona-Cagliaria with Vueling, the days before the Cagliari World Cup in Italy More than 30 hours without knowing where my bike is, thanks to @vueling for ruining so many hours of work, on an Alicante-Barcelona-Cagliari flight it doesn't arrive at its destination and they don't know where it is. Surely I will not be able to compete with my bike in the #WCCagliari, due to your incompetence. — Roberto Sanchez (@Robertotriatlon) May 31, 2018 Gurutze Frades, Emilio Aguayo and Pablo Dapena The three suffered the loss of their bicycles on their return to Spain after competing in the Fyn LD World Championship in Denmark, on a flight operated by Iberia. In the case of the Basque, she spent up to six days without her suitcase with her bike. Hello @Iberia I still haven't heard from my bike yet...The tracking doesn't show anything and you aren't giving me any information...What do you want me to do?? I keep waiting with crossed arms, I file a lawsuit...they are not...let them choose... — Pablo Dapena Gonzale (@pablitopiny) July 16, 2018 I arrive in Denmark to compete in the most important event of my career so far and @Iberia loses my bike case and they find it the day before. On the way back they lose my two suitcases again and they STILL don't know where they are... Great job @iberia ??? RT — Emilio Aguayo Muñoz (@aguayotri) July 16, 2018 Hello @Iberia 3rd day without knowing anything about my sports equipment, valued at €16000. Solutions? — Gurutze Frades (@gurutzefrades) July 17, 2018 Pablo Dapena In addition to the aforementioned, Pablo also suffered the loss of his bike on the way to Fyn and on the first leg before competing in the Prague Challenge, all three times with Iberia flights Today there are no excuses for plane delays or anything. My bike has not arrived with me in Prague and again cross my fingers that things arrive on time. This cannot be @Iberia it is a real shame. — Pablo Dapena Gonzale (@pablitopiny) July 26, 2018 Susana Rodríguez and Paula Garcia Godino Before competing in the European Paratriathlon Championship, their tandem broke on a Ryan Air flight from Lanzarote Link to the tweet: https:/ /twitter.com/SuRGAcio/status/1018408134178680832 €60 each way for you to treat sports equipment like this. @Ryanair_ES my bike could only have been damaged after being thrown from a considerable height and only then bending the steel support. Tomorrow with @TRIATLONSP I travel to the European Championship without a tandem (paralympic sport) and his bag pic.twitter.com/9dpPLTqiWl — Susana Rguez. Gacio (@SuRGAcio) July 15, 2018 Vicente Arzo He was unable to compete in the Paratriathlon European Championships, as Air France took a long time to deliver his running chair and hand bike and did not arrive on time to compete. And today it's @AirFranceES @airfrance's turn to take more than 72 hours to deliver the running chair and handbike to @TRIATLONSP's partner Vicente Arzo and he is unable to run the European Paratriathlon Championship @worldtriathlon in Tartu (Estonia) SHAME! All my support pic.twitter.com/SDmqAogQmj — Susana Rguez. Gacio (@SuRGAcio) July 19, 2018 Noel Zafra Raya His bike did not arrive in Tallinn to compete in the Ironman in the Estonian capital. It was an Air Baltic flight operated by Iberia. Zafra had to compete with a borrowed bike, which limited his performance, losing his chances of qualifying for the Kona IM, his main objective. Is incredible. My friend Noel, in the end, had to participate in the @IRONMANtri in Estonia with a borrowed bike because @airBaltic lost his bike on a flight operated by @Iberia and... nobody knows where it is yet! Can you RT??@pablitopiny @Saletacastro @Triluarca @gurutzefrades — Emilio ?? (@tri4dream) August 6, 2018 As a general rule, the greatest impotence that a triathlete suffers when they lose their bike is the treatment received by the airlines, the little information they are given about where their bikes are and why not the baggage has arrived with them. In the return of the Cagliari World Cup, our friend, the Argentine triathlete Gonzalo Tellechea also suffered the loss of his suitcase with the bicycle, on a Cagliari-Barcelona-Madrid flight, operated by Vueling. We help you with the procedures personally. We had to make many calls to a paid number, at a cost of €0,80 per minute, where after waiting many minutes "because the lines were busy" it sends you to an answering machine, where they ask you for the number of the incident and they only tell you that they haven't found your luggage yet. In the end the invoice amounted to more than 30 € for all calls in search of a response. @vueling one more day and they give me no news about my competition bike, THERE ARE ALREADY 48 NO NEWS OF my work tool. Tomorrow I have to travel to Mexico and I need it urgently because I can't travel without it. I want a solution YAAAA!!!!

Black summer for triathletes with airlines

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