casanovawa
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I know its not their problem where i live and the fact we are a long way from anywhere and the limited airlines with even more limited J offerings we are blessed with here in the West, and by and large and I am happy to try and stick within their rules if i have any inkling of what the rules are...
And if try to push it too far I'm happy for them to say "your dreamin' Mate" and i will recalibrate my expectations... But to be hit with it 4 hours into the process resembles a bit of being lead up the garden path... I just wish someone had knocked it on the head a bit earlier... It didn't help it was like 11.30pm to about 3am the whole process ran after i had summoned up the courage (and dotted the i's and crossed the t's) to call US Air... 3 hours of listening to their canned promos of flying to Montreal and Dublin whilst on hold i'm sure could have been used at Guantanamo (sp)... I was exceptionally polite the whole way through and the guy complimented me on my zen like patience when at 3am i had a headache and had to be up for work the next day... Before Mel_Traveller jumps in i accept the fault for my timing as well...
And as you say you do hear of people getting away with it and so if i could suggest that mine is not particularly one of the whackier ones just for the sake of it, and is 300 miles really a deal breaker, is there wiggle room and discretion in there or isn't there... If not, then as i said I can probably think of a few contingencies... But I woud probably be happier from now on talking to the person who makes the final decisions rather than a merry go round of operators who themselves don't seem to be in the know and whose approval apprently doesn't cound for much... Might just save a bit of time on this...
And Mel_Traveller, yes i'm sure given a clean pallette of all airlines and routes i could get to YVR under their MPM.. I think i checked and I could fly via FRA and get there for less, but there was no availability on LH in J to LAX, SFO, SEA, DEN, YVR etc, etc, etc or i would have been happy to choose the most direct routing, getting back was even more problematic and i'm sure blows the MPM ont eh way back to... So I wil have to think hard about this...
And if try to push it too far I'm happy for them to say "your dreamin' Mate" and i will recalibrate my expectations... But to be hit with it 4 hours into the process resembles a bit of being lead up the garden path... I just wish someone had knocked it on the head a bit earlier... It didn't help it was like 11.30pm to about 3am the whole process ran after i had summoned up the courage (and dotted the i's and crossed the t's) to call US Air... 3 hours of listening to their canned promos of flying to Montreal and Dublin whilst on hold i'm sure could have been used at Guantanamo (sp)... I was exceptionally polite the whole way through and the guy complimented me on my zen like patience when at 3am i had a headache and had to be up for work the next day... Before Mel_Traveller jumps in i accept the fault for my timing as well...
And as you say you do hear of people getting away with it and so if i could suggest that mine is not particularly one of the whackier ones just for the sake of it, and is 300 miles really a deal breaker, is there wiggle room and discretion in there or isn't there... If not, then as i said I can probably think of a few contingencies... But I woud probably be happier from now on talking to the person who makes the final decisions rather than a merry go round of operators who themselves don't seem to be in the know and whose approval apprently doesn't cound for much... Might just save a bit of time on this...
And Mel_Traveller, yes i'm sure given a clean pallette of all airlines and routes i could get to YVR under their MPM.. I think i checked and I could fly via FRA and get there for less, but there was no availability on LH in J to LAX, SFO, SEA, DEN, YVR etc, etc, etc or i would have been happy to choose the most direct routing, getting back was even more problematic and i'm sure blows the MPM ont eh way back to... So I wil have to think hard about this...