What the? [strange booking screen]

[Virgin Bart]

Strange when I went to book a flight this morning......

Anyone come across this before?

 

[bullerdude]

Lol... yet another example to demonstrate that Sabre sucks...

Basically, the Sabre application servers have many airlines websites on them, and why you access 'fly.virginaustralia.com/VAVA/' you should see the VA version. For some reason, sabre has returned a different interface that the VA branded one.

 

[eastwest101]

That is educational, maybe someone in Sabre or at VA are having a bit of a fiddle today.

Worldwide Air does not exist as far as I can tell so may be a case of something returning to default/factory setting mode.....

I just tried to replicate what you were seeing but was behaving itself for me. I also noticed that the VA web site can now correctly add up the two fares and return a total airfare that is the sum of the outbound and inbound airfares.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I also noticed that the VA web site can now correctly add up the two fares and return a total airfare that is the sum of the outbound and inbound airfares.

Wonders will never cease .......

Maybe they should have played with the training site BEFORE they went live :?:

 

[Standby]

I think 'worldwide air' maybe the default template for Sabre, poss what the booking engine is known internally.Over the ppast the past few month it has popped up more than once when searching along with pricing showing GBP currency in the flight avail.
I wonder if it willbe spruiked as an outstanding success at their AGM delivering the game change

 

[grubbidok]

They can call it whatever they like as far as I'm concerned, as long as they can get the damned thing to actually work!