Kablammo!

So I finally decided to book a flight back to the United States, and it seems there’s a chance that I may have capped off an absolutely wasted year abroad (read: “getting to know myself”) with an absolute waste of $587 (read: throwing it away outright). For, while I admit I’m still rather impressed with Yahoo!’s ‘Farechase’ system and the perfectly reasonable price for a one-way trip from Tallinn to JFK it quoted, onetravel.com has kind of left a bad taste in my mouth since I actually booked the ticket.

Googling for “onetravel” yields a far-from-laudatory Consumer Reports report and a series of consumer complaints, while Googling for “resfinder” (onetravel’s name for their reservation system) yields this wonderful gripefest. Of course I didn’t actually check this stuff until after entering my card number and telling them to go ahead and book a ticket for July 12. So it goes.

For what it’s worth, it seems the guy from the gripefest had his situation work out in the end, and the only real problem all along had just been piss-poor communication on the part of onetravel, which seems quite consistent with CR’s appraisal. On the (possibly) bright side, they’ve already hit up my card for charges, which means something is going on, and in the worst case I ought to be able to get the charges reversed. On the (most definitely) bright side, it seems my name and the reservation number that onetravel provided me do correspond to an entry in CZA Czech Airlines’ online reservation-checking system, an entry which matches my intended itinerary, to boot!

So here’s hoping everything works out fine.

Song of the Moment: «Final Fantasy 1, Town theme» — Some Jerk

2 Comments

• Eili says:

  June 8, 2005 at 9:29

  YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA YOU’RE COMING BACK TO AMERICA

  :]

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• Märt says:

  June 8, 2005 at 12:08

  I didn’t realize it was such a big thing…. maybe now I won’t come back after all.

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