Bundy Bear
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A few weeks ago a work colleague had to travel up to Darwin and back in 24 hours.
Late night flight up to Darwin overnight, work all day and back on a flight just after 1:00am.
Work finished about 6:00pm and thought they would select themselves a window seat for the return flight, this is when they discovered that they couldn't select a seat.
The booking reference was correct it brought up the flight and time but couldn't select a seat.
So they rang Virgin Australia and asked them what the problem was, turns out the customer who booked the flight actually booked the flight for the same date the following year. :shock:
So after paying the change fee they eventually got the flight they wanted.
The booking was last minute and the Virgin website allows you to book 366 days in advance, so I am not sure if this such a good thing to have the booking window open so far in the future.
So I guess if you can't select a seat for your flight that you think is in 14 days check the date for your flight. :idea:
Another work colleague was over in New Zealand over the weekend and were on the early morning Qantas flight back to Brisbane, well that plane broke down so Qantas put a booking onto Air New Zealand, for the 9:30am Air NZ 777 flight, they are currently Qantas Gold(requalified) and took the Virgin status match as I suggested and so was able to use the Air New Zealand Koru Club lounge, the lounge had a good range of food compared to the Qantas lounge.
Late night flight up to Darwin overnight, work all day and back on a flight just after 1:00am.
Work finished about 6:00pm and thought they would select themselves a window seat for the return flight, this is when they discovered that they couldn't select a seat.
The booking reference was correct it brought up the flight and time but couldn't select a seat.
So they rang Virgin Australia and asked them what the problem was, turns out the customer who booked the flight actually booked the flight for the same date the following year. :shock:
So after paying the change fee they eventually got the flight they wanted.
The booking was last minute and the Virgin website allows you to book 366 days in advance, so I am not sure if this such a good thing to have the booking window open so far in the future.
So I guess if you can't select a seat for your flight that you think is in 14 days check the date for your flight. :idea:
Another work colleague was over in New Zealand over the weekend and were on the early morning Qantas flight back to Brisbane, well that plane broke down so Qantas put a booking onto Air New Zealand, for the 9:30am Air NZ 777 flight, they are currently Qantas Gold(requalified) and took the Virgin status match as I suggested and so was able to use the Air New Zealand Koru Club lounge, the lounge had a good range of food compared to the Qantas lounge.
) for hot food. There were also those really sweet breakfast yoghurt concoctions - I passed on both of those.
