20.5.08

Amazing Race Boracay Part III: Sh#tm@th$rf!ck*ngf+cksh^t!

You've never had a shitmotherfuckingshit moment until you've been denied check-in for your flight when your traveling using an airline that does not allow you to do same-day standbys for free, thereby, forcing you to have to deal with people whose incompetence are on a higher level than what you might have thought was possible.

It was the day we were supposed to fly back to manila. We arrived at Caticlan airport to find that our check-in counter had already closed. It was obvious from what the agent at the check-in counter was saying that there was nothing she could or would do to help us so we went to their ticketing office instead to check what our options were. They gave us one, we go on standby for other flights that day but we have to pay for the fare difference + penalties. We asked them to compute how much we would have to pay and after adding up everything, it amounted to... well... a lot. It's was the amount of cash that you can't reasonably ask people who are on their way home from a vacation to still have in their pockets. Anyway, that obviously wasn't going to work so we put our heads together and came up with booking a monday flight from Kalibo to Manila because that was bound to be much cheaper.

After checking for available flights and finding that there were flights with base fares (not including taxes and surcharges) that were much much lower than what we paid for for our original return tickets, I asked their ticketing agent to compute how much it would be. After 45 minutes, he showed me what he came up with and I was shocked. It was even more expensive. Oh my God, he doesn't know what he's doing. Shitmotherfuckingshit!

posted by jeanne @ 05:21

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