[DavidGordon10]

wowzimmer – yes, of course airlines can try and “market” themselves to us, but if it p****s us off more than it entraps us, then it has failed. Delta has failed with me – clearly, from the evidence on this thread, other airline websites have done the same to others.

It is for the same reason that they do not show a timetable – they want to set the dummy booking in train so that we may say – “what the hell, I’ll go with this”, and they get the business.

I haven’t followed your links for timetables, but I somehow think the second one won’t help me with Delta……

[wowzimmer]

DavidGordon10 – good point, well made! I doff my cap to you on that.
As for timetables, it was a quick Google search and I can assure you that both links go through to fully functioning timetables on the respective airline websites.

[DavidGordon10]

Thank you for the nice compliment wow – but you posted the BA timetable address for both airlines! I know how these things happen….!

[Tallinnman]

Why not go the metasearch route with the likes of Kayak or Skyscanner and if need be work backwards to the airline site. I agree that airline websites are cumbersome, was just commenting today about the date function on United.

[IanFromHKG]

I just wish they would all give the inclusive prices upfront, rather than giving a price and then having you click through several more screens to get the taxes, surcharges, fees and everything else

[Tallinnman]

IfHkg – if the US airlines had their way we would have the ‘Transparent Airfares Act’. Only thing was it was to make airfares anything but transparent as they could quote a headline fare and then add any number of charges and unbundled items to that price at a later date in the process.

Had to love their audacity in the naming of the Act – it almost got through, think some other FAA legislation got caught up along side it and it was all mothballed.

[canucklad]

So another thing that really winds me up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Notice the exclamation mark’s !!!!

Imagine yourself, nose to the grindstone, a slave to your computer, or whatever your work tool of choice is. Now envisage a dreich day, as you contemplate sunnier, warmer times……
As you check you e=mails, you notice a plethora of fare deals.

CX offers you a Vietnamese escape for only £499
EZ wants to whisk you to the Med for £49.99
AC will take me home for less than a cost of a tin of sardines

As for the BA, they’re offering the world for next to nothing !!

The buggers, even include a handy link, so you’re one easy click away from your dreich despair!!

And low and behold, like a famished salmon I bite the succulent worm dangling in front of me, only to find myself flapping about their website in frustration as I seek out that fare that tempted me away from the drudgery of work, into the dream of shores far away !!
And to avail , I end up cursing their corporate cheek and my own stupidity at my gullability, again, and again!!

[MrDarwin]

@canucklad it’s called a Full Moon Riding on Halley’s Comet when Venus is in Uranus on the 29th February Sale.

Also, the overuse of the exclamation marks winds me up 🙂

[LuganoPirate]

Plenty of availability on Feb 30th though!

My gripe earlier about lack of timetables and having to make dummy bookings. Now resolved thanks to Expertflyer.com. I never realised they have a timetable section and is very easy to use.

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