 Poster: A snowHead
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Frosty, thanks for the update, that's an important lesson for all of us. Moral of the tale is to double check all details before hitting the 'confirm' button, and hope that you have no unforeseen changes to your holiday plans. I suppose it could be worse though, we could be paying £200+ for all our shorthaul flights like we were before the likes of easyjet came along 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar, Quite agree
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It is interesting ( if slightly off topic) to compare with Eurostar and their passport and names policy -
If going just on Eurostar to Paris, or indeed direct through to Bourg St Maurice, you have to provide passenger names, and the tickets are issued with pre-stamped names on them.
However, since we are changing to the TGV in Paris, for an overnight to BSM during January, we have not had to supply any passenger names whatsoever. I have the tickets in my sticky mitts, no names provided, none asked.
Yet we will be sitting beside people who have had to provide said names on the first and last legs of the journey, and possibly paid for the privelege of changing them.
As a result, because I have one person going out with us, but flying back to Canada via Paris, and another arrrving from Madrid, but catching the train back to London, just 1 return ticket has accomodated both parties, no trouble.
Which is just as well, as the single from BSM to London is £40 more than buying a return ticket (£169 vs £129)
I love this crazy planet.
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| laundryman wrote: |
| I don't think we can complain overly. We seek the cheapest possible headline fares but the airlines are only able to provide them by making opportunistic profits elsewhere. On the plus side (putting aside environmental concerns), millions more people are able to afford to fly than used to be the case. |
But not all airlines treat you equally badly. A year or so back I accidentally swapped over two colleagues surnames when I booked flights for a business trip. I didn't realise my mistake until we got to the check-in desk but the booking was amended without any suggestion of a charge - although I obviously paid for my mistake by accepting an appropriate amount of needling and buying a round of drinks to apologise.
We had cheap, inflexible tickets with BMI Baby. Sometimes the low cost airlines give you better service than the full service ones do.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty, Just for your information, if you didn't already know, Opodo is owned by British Airways along with Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Austrian Airlines, Finnair and Amadeus.
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| Jonny Jones wrote: |
| But not all airlines treat you equally badly. |
Quite true. Last season I had to do multiple trips back from GVA to LGW. Usually went BA - treated as a wanted customer, food (of a sort), free drink (very nice wine with refills no prob) and free newspapers, pre allocated seating (online check in), etc. All cheaper than Easyjet, the obvious competitor on that route. Went with Easyjet once - perfectly good, but treated as self loading cargo.
BA for me every time - until they get (very) expensive.
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Sage, Speechless  I had to pay £25 "handling fee" to Opodo get my airport taxes back
Alastair, TBH I'm also a BA fan, I like the better service (at the check-in and on the plane!) BA's flights were actually pretty competitive £510 for 8 seats Gatwick to Zurich inc taxes so this was all good. I was simply surpised that it was not possible to corect a genuine mistake in any way. The fact that you get good service from BA most of the time made this even more surprising
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A few years ago, travelling with junior who was still at the needing a pushchair stage, we flew out to Vancouver. As you do when going skiing, compounded by all the kit you need for a baby, we had a fair bit of luggage, plus the pushchair. No problem with the pushchair on the way out, but coming back we were told by BA that it counted as luggage and would therefore be liable to an excess baggage charge. The terms on their website only said that pushchairs would "usually" be carried free of charge - and on this occasion they'd decided that usually wouldn't apply.
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Okanagan, Was it BA staff or a handling agent. From my experience, handling agents sometimes try it on.
Alastair, I agree with you, I think BA cabin crew are some of the best out - I just hope the Pilots get their pensions sorted out with BA management.
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