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I just spent 2 hours trying to find a ticket to bring my piece-of-ass home 2 weeks early...what a PAIN!!!
Since his leave isn't 100% guaranteed yet, and he *may* be able to get a military flight home, it had to be a refundable ticket. AND, since he's on the ship, it had to be an E-ticket, because there's no way I can get a paper ticket to him in time (they don't guarantee delivery to FPO addresses, and it probably wouldn't get there on time).
So every damn ticket I pulled up on Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia was either non-refundable OR required a paper ticket...but they waited until I was halfway through checking out before telling me either of these things!!! Or better yet, I'd do a search specifically asking for refundable tickets, and find out the one I had selected was non-refundable. Fuckers.
I eventually had to go to an individual airline's website, book him a ticket from one city to another, and then went to Orbitz for the ticket from that city to home. The first ticket is non-refundable, but it was fairly cheap. And actually the second ticket wasn't nearly as expensive as it was going to be had I booked the whole thing through Orbitz.
So...all 3 websites deserve a time-out. In separate corners. And no talking to each other. One peep, and it's spankings all around (not for you, scarletpeaches). Orbitz, you get out of time-out 10 minutes earlier than the others because at least you finally GAVE ME A GODDAMN TICKET.
Now...we just wait and see if his leave gets approved. *fingers crossed*
Since his leave isn't 100% guaranteed yet, and he *may* be able to get a military flight home, it had to be a refundable ticket. AND, since he's on the ship, it had to be an E-ticket, because there's no way I can get a paper ticket to him in time (they don't guarantee delivery to FPO addresses, and it probably wouldn't get there on time).
So every damn ticket I pulled up on Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia was either non-refundable OR required a paper ticket...but they waited until I was halfway through checking out before telling me either of these things!!! Or better yet, I'd do a search specifically asking for refundable tickets, and find out the one I had selected was non-refundable. Fuckers.
I eventually had to go to an individual airline's website, book him a ticket from one city to another, and then went to Orbitz for the ticket from that city to home. The first ticket is non-refundable, but it was fairly cheap. And actually the second ticket wasn't nearly as expensive as it was going to be had I booked the whole thing through Orbitz.
So...all 3 websites deserve a time-out. In separate corners. And no talking to each other. One peep, and it's spankings all around (not for you, scarletpeaches). Orbitz, you get out of time-out 10 minutes earlier than the others because at least you finally GAVE ME A GODDAMN TICKET.
Now...we just wait and see if his leave gets approved. *fingers crossed*