Playing with the permutations on a trip home. A little like playing chess by mail and finding one’s opponent has made changes to the board before making their move, but no one really to hold accountable. Look, one wishes to say, that flight from Athens to Montreal (or wherever) existed yesterday. Did you change your mind about offering it or only about listing it?
Admittedly this kind of behaviour is not entirely new on the part of Air Canada. Can remember a telephone conversation with them several years ago. It was necessary for some reason - probably points related - to book our two reservations separately, and therefore consecutively. The final leg of the round trip was Toronto to Winnipeg, and it was showing only one seat available. In the unlikely event that this was accurate it would be impossible to make the second booking for the same flights as the first. The price was available only to those booking online, not by telephone.
Eventually I phoned the tech help line to say that I simply did not believe that a scheduled domestic flight eight months away had only one seat remaining. There was a mistake. It is possible, he said. Yes, I know it’s theoretically possible, but I don’t believe it. Well, he suggested, I could always book the first flight, and if my assumption was right a seat would appear for the second booking, if I felt comfortable doing it that way. I didn’t. In the end the techie (and I love techies - they’re usually so much nicer to deal with than customer disservice) connected me to an agent who booked the seats I knew must be there.
Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours there were 44 tests in the North with 0 new cases (the last new case in the North was in April) and 799 tests in the South with 6 new cases. And the border did not open. But, sooner or later....
Admittedly this kind of behaviour is not entirely new on the part of Air Canada. Can remember a telephone conversation with them several years ago. It was necessary for some reason - probably points related - to book our two reservations separately, and therefore consecutively. The final leg of the round trip was Toronto to Winnipeg, and it was showing only one seat available. In the unlikely event that this was accurate it would be impossible to make the second booking for the same flights as the first. The price was available only to those booking online, not by telephone.
Eventually I phoned the tech help line to say that I simply did not believe that a scheduled domestic flight eight months away had only one seat remaining. There was a mistake. It is possible, he said. Yes, I know it’s theoretically possible, but I don’t believe it. Well, he suggested, I could always book the first flight, and if my assumption was right a seat would appear for the second booking, if I felt comfortable doing it that way. I didn’t. In the end the techie (and I love techies - they’re usually so much nicer to deal with than customer disservice) connected me to an agent who booked the seats I knew must be there.
Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours there were 44 tests in the North with 0 new cases (the last new case in the North was in April) and 799 tests in the South with 6 new cases. And the border did not open. But, sooner or later....
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