Have a buisness trip to Japan end of the week, so a few weeks back started to organise an extended trip.
Contacted the BA Executive club and got a quote to continue the flight down to Auckland ... extra price was reasonable, they said they had to send it to their "Fares Dept." to calculate extra taxes, they'll contact me. OK, no problem.
Week goes by without any feedback, so calls them - "Ah ... it was refused by the Fares Dept." - nice of them to let me know.
Was given some excuse about it not including an Atlantic crossing, so ask them to add one in after New Zealand. OK, they would get back to me.
No they didn't .. chased them again to find out that the price had ballooned by another £2,000 !
Thought about it, but I am Scottish and don't have MUG across my forehead so told them no.
Got a simple price for a business flight London-Tokyo-London and then for Zurich-London-Tokyo-London-Zurich .... and would you believe it the extra flight from and to Zurich business class actually made the whole flight £500 cheaper.
Bloody shower. Worse than getting a quote for some double glazing.
They are about to receive an extremely terse letter from me.
Was looking forward to lying on the beach over Chritsmas.
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