![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
How Do I Hate Airlines, Oh Let Me Count The Ways...
Tomorrow we leave for a 10 day trip to Holland. My mother turned 55, and one of her sisters also had a birthday (consecutive days), and so they're doing a big joint celebration on the 16th. My mother offered to fly us over there to be there. All fine and dandy.
So, the other week I booked PreZ and my ticket. You can't book infants under 2 online, and I completely forgot to call and add Dashiell until today. Infants under 2 travel as a lap infant, though they still require a paper ticket even though they don't get their own seat (I think the paper ticket is only a requirement on international travel).
I was under the impression that for international flights you pay 10% of the fare for the infant. Okay, fine, that means that we'd be paying around $44 for him. Apparantly, it's 10% of the cheapest fare availible on the date of booking, which the lady on the phone told me would amount to over $500.
Fucking rip-off. He's ON OUR LAP, he doesn't even get his own seat and he's paying more than we are for our seat.
Not only that, I just went online to the airline's website, and the cheapest fare I can find right now for our flight is $2800 roundtrip for 1 adult, and 10% of that is *not* $500+. I've printed off that page as proof/for reference.
It's going to be very interesting at the ticket counter tomorrow...
So, the other week I booked PreZ and my ticket. You can't book infants under 2 online, and I completely forgot to call and add Dashiell until today. Infants under 2 travel as a lap infant, though they still require a paper ticket even though they don't get their own seat (I think the paper ticket is only a requirement on international travel).
I was under the impression that for international flights you pay 10% of the fare for the infant. Okay, fine, that means that we'd be paying around $44 for him. Apparantly, it's 10% of the cheapest fare availible on the date of booking, which the lady on the phone told me would amount to over $500.
Fucking rip-off. He's ON OUR LAP, he doesn't even get his own seat and he's paying more than we are for our seat.
Not only that, I just went online to the airline's website, and the cheapest fare I can find right now for our flight is $2800 roundtrip for 1 adult, and 10% of that is *not* $500+. I've printed off that page as proof/for reference.
It's going to be very interesting at the ticket counter tomorrow...