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Group: alt.tv.amazingrace · Group Profile
Author: Michael BlackMichael Black Date: Apr 3, 2007 09:54
> On Apr 2, 9:36 pm, Rich Piehl NOSPAMcharter.net>
> wrote:>> How bad is a travel agency that keeps people waiting 7 hours while
>> you're looking for a flight for them? Good grief - book
>> something...anything! There had to be flights to somewhere that they
>> could have taken to somewhere that could have gotten them to somewhere
>> in Europe that could get them to Warsaw in 7 hours.
>>
>> I used to work in a travel agency. Coming out of a small airport in
>> Africa can be hard...but not THAT hard.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Rich
>>
>> God bless the USA
>> --
>> Et in terra pax
>
> Did I miss Phill giving the usual line about "In
>> airline tickets cannot be purchased at an airline counter, teams
> must use a travel agency"
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I don't know. But the weird part was, he I'm sure he said that due
to the limited number of flights, the contestants had tickets for getting
to the next destination (or words to that effect). So if I heard
that right, then they all rushed to a travel agency with the hope of
getting better flights. They presumably wanted a travel agency since
it wouldn't have the blinders of an individual airline's ticket counter.
They went in saying they needed a better arrival time than whatever the
purchased tickets were for.
It all falls apart since either the travel agency was incapable of finding
something better, or there wasn't much, or maybe even their computer broke
down. Since it seems only two teams got better flights.
ANd then, the prepurchased tickets failed, because they landed in Europe
and missed the connecting flight to Poland.
What didn't make sense was that Dustin and twin left the 1st mat at 8am,
which is 3.5 hours after Charla and Mirna, but somehow scored an earlier
flight. I don't know how to explain that, unless I mixed up one of the
blonde team with Danielle, who obviously got to the agency with Eric
much later, though I think before the other teams had their tickets.
Michael
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