Wednesday 17 October 2007

Airline tickets [SvN]

With Paul and Thomas, we tried to book cheap tickets to South America, via websites such as Kayak.com, cheaptickets.com.

However, trying to buy tickets from TAM airlines, allegedly a good company, proved very tricky as their website did not work, nor their phone number. We somehow managed to buy tickets, but those were cancelled the following day because TAM did not confirm to the provider that there was room on the flight...

We finally chose the really cheap option: flight with Air Comet from Paris to Madrid, and from Madrid to BA with Aerolinas Argentinas (which belongs to Air Comet). However, those companies have the bad reputation of being always late (3 to 4 hours on short flights to one full day on longer ones), loosing luggages for 6 weeks(with no excuses and a relunctancy to refund anything) and bad service (Spanish only). This is why the price is so low. We'll see!

Flight Paris-Madrid-Buenos Aires, saturday 3 november 2007.

A safe solution to bring bikes on the plane:
Vélo-avion, 1912. Photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Après des heures de galères sur le net, avec le site et le téléphone de TAM Airlines qui ne marchait pas, nous avons finalement opté pour des billets low-cost Air Comet pour Paris-Madrid et Aerolinas Argentinas pour Madrid-Buenos Aires. Réputation d'être toujours en retard, de perdre les bagages, le tout sans jamais s'excuser. Nous verrons bien!

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