Talk:Kiwi.com

Covid-19 alleged scam complaints.

As a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Kiwi became the target of thousands of complaints on various sites such as Tripadvisor and TrustPilot https://www.trustpilot.com/review/kiwi.com?languages=en&stars=1&stars=2&stars=3&stars=4&stars=5 alleging wholesale fraud. The nature of the alleged fraud was that once a flight was cancelled, Kiwi would contact the passenger to advise them of this and offer them a credit that could only be used with Kiwi at a later date. The credit was usually a small fraction of the actual fare paid. If they were not satisfied, they had the option of paying €20 in order that Kiwi would assist in obtaining a refund on their behalf. Those who pursued this option were told that it might take up to six months to obtain the refund and it was not guaranteed that they would be successful.

As Kiwi.com is located in the EU, it is believed that nearly all tickets bought through them are fully refundable if airlines cancel flights as a result of the Covid-198 Pandemic. It is believed that if passengers accept the credit instead of a refund, Kiwi will continue to seek the refund and pocket it for themselves.

Prior to that there had been multiple complaints of passengers booking flights with Kiwi.com and the company then failing to pass the money to the airlines and passengers then being refused service by the airline. https://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowTopic-g1-i10702-k11349129-o260-Warning_Kiwi_com_is_a_SCAM-Air_Travel.html46.7.195.132 (talk) 11:47, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

96.232.133.175 (talk) 03:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

(IP-posted legal threats and advertising removed by Mikehawk10 at 17:39, 20 April 2021 (UTC)) 96.232.133.175 (talk) 03:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

The claim about Kiwi.com not taking into account COVID-19 travel restrictions is supported only by two articles from a single media source, and only one case of a New Zealand couple. To support this claim, more citations are needed. Otherwise, it is misleading: if Kiwi.com has 1.1Bn turnover, it sells at least 3 million airline tickets per year, and there should be more cases like this. The claim should be either deleted as misleading, or more citations should be added Internetyev (talk) 13:43, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

@Internetyev: The comment from the Kiwi.com spokesperson that's paraphrased in the article seems like a general statement about the company's practice, not a comment on a single case. More citations would be useful, and/or the wording could be improved, but removing the entire paragraph doesn't strike me as necessary. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:48, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Since there is neither official press release, nor other statements that prove this, I vote for removing this as misleading. Internetyev (talk) 11:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Internetyev: Wikipedia articles aren't based on primary sources like press releases, but on reliable secondary sources. Decisions about what to include in Wikipedia articles are made by consensus rather than voting. @Jklamo: "per talk" isn't really an adequate explanation for this removal of content, as there clearly isn't a consensus here. Could you elaborate? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Page protection needed.

Since this page has been vandalised several times since April, I suggest protecting it for 1 month at least. Can an administrator take the action? Maybe User:Materialscientist? Tales.ebner (talk) 15:02, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Agreed about the need to protect these comments. They are well sourced with links to legitimate sites. I am not "wiki proficient" and I posted the comment preceding yours. I think it should be on the main page, but I do not know how to do this. Feel free to move it to the main page if you wish to.46.7.195.132 (talk) 06:46, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Observer claim

@Xstek23: Could you clarify your edit summary? From what you've written it sounds as though you thought the article was saying, in Wikipedia's voice, that Kiwi.com was responsible for the year's "worst customer service", but in fact it made clear that, as you say, this is "only the opinion of one medium". (It does seem to be an uncontested fact that Kiwi charged customers additional fees for customer service, though; I don't think we should say that's just the Observer's opinion.) Since the previous wording's obviously caused confusion, I wonder if there's an alternative, clearer wording for this that you'd be happy with? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:28, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

@Arms & Hearts: Quality issues and criticism have been more widely reported than just in The Observer. I've added some of the sources to the page; feel free to give them a look. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 17:40, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@Mikehawk10: Your additions look good to me – my preference, I think, would be to follow WP:CSECTION and work controversies into a "History" (or similar) section, but I think I'm usually in the minority on that. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:20, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

email address ?

What is their email address ? And why can't I find their email address anywhere? For me it is always a sign of seriousness to have easy access to a company by email. I don't let myself be forced on platforms like facebook, insta and the like. Even in their own app it is not possible to send them a non standardized message. I simply want to politely draw their attention to a typing error in their data but it is not possible ?--2003:CF:1F2F:D416:EDBD:5347:9D71:D566 (talk) 08:10, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

This talk page is for discussion of improvements to the Wikipedia article on Kiwi.com. As such, it's unlikely that anyone here will be able to help with this. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 14:33, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Not displaying an email address is a widespread practice for large consumer-facing companies. Internetyev (talk) 13:23, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Response to Russian invasion to Ukraine

I'd like to suggest adding a section regarding Kiwi.com's response to Russian invasion to Ukraine. Internetyev (talk) 14:08, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

What secondary sources would such a section cite? A Google News search doesn't turn up any for me. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:49, 29 April 2022 (UTC)