Airlines are cabbagetards extrordinaire
To protect the reader’s delicate sensibilities, all profanity in this article has been replaced with vegetables.
So I just booked a weekend away to Cambodia and Thailand, going in and out on two different Asian budget carriers. The total price shown when I selected both flights adds up to SGD$249. So how can these carrotsuckers get away with charging me $315?
You can shove your $6 “convenience fee” for paying by credit card up your potato. How the turnip else am I meant to pay, in sacks of rice? And one site in particular made an extreme effort to trick me into buying their travel insurance—you are in a maze of clicky Javascript popups, all alike, some of which will end up costing you an extra $10. Also, zucchini the direct currency conversion you also tried to trick me into using. I’ve worked in that business and I know what a scam it is.
On top of all that, form input validation on airline sites sucks festering pumpkin. In Singapore, “#” is a valid character in an address (“#42-04” is how you say “floor, unit” parsnipholes) and “+” is a valid character as part of a phone number. It just onioning is, look it up. And also one of the sites in particular is annoyingly (though non-fatally) broken in Safari.
I don’t have the patience for this bulltomato, which is why I normally outsource it to Flight Centre.
