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Experience: Find SYD-SGN for 2 April on 1 April.
Some may find below bizarre logic amusing. Airlines may not enjoy knowing that they are not working hard enough at striking deals. I know expertflyer would have been the go, but the travel agents I know, seem incapable of getting the deals.
My initial thought was should be cheap, everyone is coming back, not going out and wrong side of the holiday window.
Search lastminute.com airfares
What don't take less than 2 days. Grrr. Try the 4th.
Sg airlines $938 return - thats doable, with other very close.
Search Webjet $1300 odd one way - never come back to this site - what a bad impression.
Ring Malaysian Airways. No discount for emergency - so $1300 odd - hmm lost my business if the lame website only suggests rack prices and after having told them about 'cheapest and other airlines'. No active listening here - or no empowerment.
Ring B-S-tFlights 7/24. $1289 odd return via HK.At least they got the next available flight spot on.
They also cautioned on the need for a VN visa. Also a plus for the operator.
Somebody has a waiver - but this is why the issue of Visa's stinks - but this time, not a showstopper. One way was 850's - ehh too much methinks. IF they could have snagged sg or ML for $950 it would have been a done deal.
Check Scoot. Nothing interline out < 48Hours and return $400 odd - doable. That 48H enfeeblement of online booking just lost you a booking. Scoots problem is my complete distrust of Tiger for Interline flights,
means I will not touch them until they take responsibility for their own fault missed connections, rather than extort over-a-barrel we gotcha stance.
Consider Tiger - for a millisecond. Intraasia they have their uses, but no deal until they take responsibility for their own foul ups or delays.
Try China Eastern. Website slow, too much slow loading eyecandy $1300 odd - eliminated for being more expensive than Cathay Pacific. Seems they were full - a successful airline at selling BOS's methinks.
AirAsia. Their feeble webside deserves a Clarksonisms - Jeremy Clarkson Car Quotes award.
"If it were a creature, it wouldn’t be a lion or a praying mantis or even a chimp. No, I think it would be a wasp — useless and hateful in equal measure"
Using IE6, the online booking engine failed to work - some f-king of 1036? - Minimum number of PAX selected error. I can see 1 in the field - whats this s--t webside doing - turning away 23% of the IE6 market? (Together with Afganistan Mobile prefix default - somebody is not thinking.
After Checking Jetstar ($1500 odd return - via MEL+SIN - clearly they are turning people away with such a syphilitic price) , or seem to insist showing prices in Vietnam dong - and not cheap at all, decided to re-try A-Asia and went into computer science webtesting testing mode.
Before booking on AirAsia, Check retry skyscanner.net, and it returned $860 odd on AirAsia. Ok, 'Australian' Airlines <seem to have issues> and dont want my money. Regretably I will have to give it to a foreign airline.
Oh dear, forgot Hotels, flights, car rental & cheap holidays on Expedia.ie.
Did I get best price? 726 euro - yeah did better than ok.No buyers remorse.
After several restarts http and https combinations,( I thing is was the join BIG push prompt that broke things - finally got and booked something for $860 odd return.
I muse that there must be empty seats leaving, and a gentleman's sort of cartel means they would rather fly empty and permanently offend, than at least be in the race.
This frustration exercise has me thinking full-blooded airlines don't want my business, and none has the technology, to look at others cookies and distinguish - that they have a cheapskate at their (online)doorstep, and make the right pitch to bring in marginal bums on seats.
Used Westpac Platinum to get travel insurance, as Cwth bank's $1000 hurdle is a bridge too far. Unlike all that money they wasted in advertising a little boy, and saying we'll fix it, a complaint about the TA limit increase did get a response - it is 'policy' and the Senior PR droid was not allowed to explain anything other than say sorry they cant answer my 'why' question. I respect their decision to keep 10%+ forex charges - there seems to be no end of aussies lining up to be legally 'done'. Worst rates for IDR ant THB - snicker (first time westies and schoolies).
On the duty free issue, Singapore DF has gone upmarket and removed online prices, and charge more at arrivals than departures. Dubai seems to have better prices, so it seems reputation is heading down the S-bend.
Then drove to Sydney Airport, as it was cheaper than public transport and hokey access fees.
In this excercise, Malaysian and Jetstar lost 'points' bigtime for trying it on.
Some may find below bizarre logic amusing. Airlines may not enjoy knowing that they are not working hard enough at striking deals. I know expertflyer would have been the go, but the travel agents I know, seem incapable of getting the deals.
My initial thought was should be cheap, everyone is coming back, not going out and wrong side of the holiday window.
Search lastminute.com airfares
What don't take less than 2 days. Grrr. Try the 4th.
Sg airlines $938 return - thats doable, with other very close.
Search Webjet $1300 odd one way - never come back to this site - what a bad impression.
Ring Malaysian Airways. No discount for emergency - so $1300 odd - hmm lost my business if the lame website only suggests rack prices and after having told them about 'cheapest and other airlines'. No active listening here - or no empowerment.
Ring B-S-tFlights 7/24. $1289 odd return via HK.At least they got the next available flight spot on.
They also cautioned on the need for a VN visa. Also a plus for the operator.
Somebody has a waiver - but this is why the issue of Visa's stinks - but this time, not a showstopper. One way was 850's - ehh too much methinks. IF they could have snagged sg or ML for $950 it would have been a done deal.
Check Scoot. Nothing interline out < 48Hours and return $400 odd - doable. That 48H enfeeblement of online booking just lost you a booking. Scoots problem is my complete distrust of Tiger for Interline flights,
means I will not touch them until they take responsibility for their own fault missed connections, rather than extort over-a-barrel we gotcha stance.
Consider Tiger - for a millisecond. Intraasia they have their uses, but no deal until they take responsibility for their own foul ups or delays.
Try China Eastern. Website slow, too much slow loading eyecandy $1300 odd - eliminated for being more expensive than Cathay Pacific. Seems they were full - a successful airline at selling BOS's methinks.
AirAsia. Their feeble webside deserves a Clarksonisms - Jeremy Clarkson Car Quotes award.
"If it were a creature, it wouldn’t be a lion or a praying mantis or even a chimp. No, I think it would be a wasp — useless and hateful in equal measure"
Using IE6, the online booking engine failed to work - some f-king of 1036? - Minimum number of PAX selected error. I can see 1 in the field - whats this s--t webside doing - turning away 23% of the IE6 market? (Together with Afganistan Mobile prefix default - somebody is not thinking.
After Checking Jetstar ($1500 odd return - via MEL+SIN - clearly they are turning people away with such a syphilitic price) , or seem to insist showing prices in Vietnam dong - and not cheap at all, decided to re-try A-Asia and went into computer science webtesting testing mode.
Before booking on AirAsia, Check retry skyscanner.net, and it returned $860 odd on AirAsia. Ok, 'Australian' Airlines <seem to have issues> and dont want my money. Regretably I will have to give it to a foreign airline.
Oh dear, forgot Hotels, flights, car rental & cheap holidays on Expedia.ie.
Did I get best price? 726 euro - yeah did better than ok.No buyers remorse.
After several restarts http and https combinations,( I thing is was the join BIG push prompt that broke things - finally got and booked something for $860 odd return.
I muse that there must be empty seats leaving, and a gentleman's sort of cartel means they would rather fly empty and permanently offend, than at least be in the race.
This frustration exercise has me thinking full-blooded airlines don't want my business, and none has the technology, to look at others cookies and distinguish - that they have a cheapskate at their (online)doorstep, and make the right pitch to bring in marginal bums on seats.
Used Westpac Platinum to get travel insurance, as Cwth bank's $1000 hurdle is a bridge too far. Unlike all that money they wasted in advertising a little boy, and saying we'll fix it, a complaint about the TA limit increase did get a response - it is 'policy' and the Senior PR droid was not allowed to explain anything other than say sorry they cant answer my 'why' question. I respect their decision to keep 10%+ forex charges - there seems to be no end of aussies lining up to be legally 'done'. Worst rates for IDR ant THB - snicker (first time westies and schoolies).
On the duty free issue, Singapore DF has gone upmarket and removed online prices, and charge more at arrivals than departures. Dubai seems to have better prices, so it seems reputation is heading down the S-bend.
Then drove to Sydney Airport, as it was cheaper than public transport and hokey access fees.
In this excercise, Malaysian and Jetstar lost 'points' bigtime for trying it on.
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