Just last week, Eric was trying to see if we could tweak our itinerary so we could have more time in Sydney cutting a few days out of the Hawaii leg. I love HI, don't get me wrong, but I'd rather spend a few days visiting the Great Barrier Reef! It's somewhere we haven't been and we've always wanted to visit this magnificent place. So he was talking to the RTW Delta agent and discussing things over when all of a sudden the agent told him that my ticket was in the process of being cancelled! And i was like, WTF!!! Now, how could that happen? I almost could not believe it! According to the agent, the process to cancel my RTW ticket started on March 23 and that someone actually called, spoke to an agent (they even have the call time stamped but forgot to get his name, figures right?!) and gave the agent my confirmation number! Now, who would do such a thing, I ask? Someone out there must not like me! And if it was a coincidence that some was legitimately canceling their trip and just was off a letter or number with their reservation, wouldn't the agent at least make sure it's the right reservation they are canceling? Talk about quality control!
Ok, now you have to understand that it took us forever to plot down and get our flight/trip itinerary and ultimately get ticketed, and for us to find out this way was to say the least too close for comfort! God knows its been a dream of mine to go around the world! Now I have my ticket back and I can continue daydreaming of all the places, cool experiences and fun times we are going to have!
FYI, March 23 was BP day and I was definitely somewhere where I couldn't have made a call...I was tied up or something that day! That's for sure!
To celebrate Christian's 40th birthday, two "adventurous" boys head around the world in 42 days. No hot air balloon required!
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Close Call! Crisis averted!!!
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It happened once to us in the middle of a RTW trip :-(
ReplyDeleteWe were in Sydney, the day before departure I went on the web to check in, and WTF? no more flight in our ticket!!!! I called BA (it was a BA trip) and I had the same comment than you. Somebody cancelled my trip with no more explanation. They were able to rebook (for free) all the left legs of the itinerary. But I had to argue quite a bit to have back some space on one fully booked flight. I finally had everything back, but I lost one day arguing...
Eric (et Michel)