How Do I Hate Airlines, Oh Let Me Count The Ways...

[annuin]

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...

Comments

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

Give 'em hell!

[pylaydia.livejournal.com]

Good luck and have an awesome trip anyways.

[thetragicclown.livejournal.com]

Vervain beat me to what I was going to say, so instead I'm going to say "crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women."

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

The only real problem is is that we need to get some kind of ticket, we don't have the luxury of telling them to sit and spin, so any outrage will have to be tempered to a degree. However, I'd like to try and get it reduced to less than the $500+ they told me on the phone, which is just fucking ludicrous.

[abigailvr.livejournal.com]

That stinks!

I hope you have a good trip.

*Sending Mental Death Beams to the Airlines*

[ladyattercop.livejournal.com]

Verbally slap them once or twice for me!

You may not get to unleash the full force of your fury, but rest assured, those of us not traveling will be seething in righteous indignation on your behalf.

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Well, you're likely flying by now, but in any case, I wish you a safe trip, with hopefully no (well, not too much at any rate) hiccups.

Anyway, perhaps they were hoping you'd somehow choose to fly business class or something, with 10% being $500. Nuts.