Flyer complains after Vistara's system refuses to accept professor as her title, airline responds

A tweet by a flyer from Air Vistara has gone viral on social media. Shyama Rath was trying to fill personal details on the Airline's website and was unable to use 'Professor' with her gender. Taking a screenshot of the page, Rath tweeted it with the caption "Common". The screenshot displayed the message which read: "Title PROFESSOR is not valid for this gender. Please change your TITLE option."

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The tweet was soon noticed by the airline who responded saying, "Dear Ms. Rath. Thank you for pointing this out. This certainly is not done correctly, we will have it fixed! Apologies for this, we are embarrassed to see, Vishal"

Sanjiv Kapoor, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer, Vistara, also apologized to Shyama and thanked her for pointing the gaffe out. 

Meanwhile, Twitter has been buzzing with reactions of the same. Although, while a few stated that the blunder was highly wrong and should take note off, many lauded the airline for their swift comeback. Read reactions below- 

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