/…You don’t get many air miles at one time so it takes a longtime to accumulate enough to get from here(Toronto) to say….Chicago.
A few years ago when it was hard to find merchants who had a deal with Air Miles, I think it took me a year to
compile sufficient Air Miles to get me to Pickering,……. well maybe Ajax but not Oshawa!
Given that backdrop you can appreciate how wildly enthusiastic I was when Air Miles reported I had amassed more
4 thousand!
Because two members of our household are heading west in a few weeks it was the obvious moment to tap into the
Air Miles vault and fly away to Calgary YYC. So I googled Air Miles.Ca….and what followed was several hours of unsolicited frustration.
I didn’t know some organizations actually work hard to create an endless parade of poppycock and phiffle. My first impression was the Air Miles people
actually wanted me to be successful in my quest. They sent me an e-mail saying they were “glad that I was interested
in redeeming my AIR MILES reward miles for booking a flight.” The e-mail names a roster of airlines that were at my service, some of which I’d never heard of…
Central Mountain Air, Canadian North, Calm Air, Horizon Air–and the biggies, Air Canada, West Jet etc…all I was assured would give me, personal service voluntarily,
after all this is a service industry!!!!! “If you want to book right away, gushed the e-mail simply click on “continue to flight results.” Of course that doesn’t get
you anywhere–fool, that’s me!! There are no other tabs or widgets or prompts to get you to “booking-a-flight,” so we went back to Air Miles.ca.
At this stage I wanted to ask Teresa-that helpful person from whom I received the e-mail, a couple of questions but she was beyond my growing frustration. I wanted to call her because
near the end of the email she wrote “feel free to let me know if I can be of “additional assistance to you.”
That of course its poppycock because it says quite plainly in another part of the air miles website …”we assure you that we will reply to your questions within 3 to 5 business days!!!!
OK so Teresa is not going to be of any help!!
Let’s go book something. Here we go, from travel assistance to a place to type in flying from YYC to YXE, but it will not let you enter the date on which you want to fly.
OK, I’ll just punch find flight info–uh oh, here’s a flag–it says: “oops, there is an error in your flight search please check the highlighted fields and try your search again.”
OK, so now if you punch in the to and fro(again) they will also allow you to punch in the date you want to fly!! Search..search..search–uh oh, another message:
“there’s no availability on the dates you have selected.” And then they let you know there’s a cash option. KAZAM. Magically there’s a flight for me. Cost $273.28!
Thanks for nothing Air Miles. Let me try something else. So I checked in with the FLIGHT NETWORK— YYC to YXE: cost $188.00.
I booked that flight for two, saved almost $200 dollars and spent no AIR Miles just so I can drive myself nuts in the future, (some rainy Wednesday afternoon) trying to book another flight to somewhere
with the assistance of the Air Miles network!!!
Given the short supply of “available flights on the dates I wish to fly” Air Miles ought to add the GRACE L. FERGUSON STORM DOOR and FLYING COMPANY to their roster of airlines.
Bob Newhart would have understood and appreciated the falldara, gobbledygook and poppycock(or is that poopycock) of trying to book a ticket when there are” no available flights on the dates
you wish to fly.” Pick another option! How about another website!!!!!!
BECAUSE You can’t get there from here!!
/…gasoline at the pumps: 126.1 at Sunoco, Shell, Esso, Husky and Petrocan.
Funny how they all picked the SAME number on the SAME day! What do we need five major oil companies when they all charge the same price?
Why not have just one ? Of course then you wouldn’t have all those different loyalty rewards programs, would you and that would be a shame.
?…the Competition bureau has stirred—it’s going after Bell, for not playing fair with us, consumers!!!! More tomorrow.
/…For whom the Bell tolls, the Bell tolls for thee, English!!!
Beginning this year Sweden will be teaching Mandarin in all elementary schools!
Holy Toledo!!!
holidayatlarge 
You can’t get there from here!
2011/07/07 Leave a comment
/…You don’t get many air miles at one time so it takes a longtime to accumulate enough to get from here(Toronto) to say….Chicago.
A few years ago when it was hard to find merchants who had a deal with Air Miles, I think it took me a year to
compile sufficient Air Miles to get me to Pickering,……. well maybe Ajax but not Oshawa!
Given that backdrop you can appreciate how wildly enthusiastic I was when Air Miles reported I had amassed more
4 thousand!
Because two members of our household are heading west in a few weeks it was the obvious moment to tap into the
Air Miles vault and fly away to Calgary YYC. So I googled Air Miles.Ca….and what followed was several hours of unsolicited frustration.
I didn’t know some organizations actually work hard to create an endless parade of poppycock and phiffle. My first impression was the Air Miles people
actually wanted me to be successful in my quest. They sent me an e-mail saying they were “glad that I was interested
in redeeming my AIR MILES reward miles for booking a flight.” The e-mail names a roster of airlines that were at my service, some of which I’d never heard of…
Central Mountain Air, Canadian North, Calm Air, Horizon Air–and the biggies, Air Canada, West Jet etc…all I was assured would give me, personal service voluntarily,
after all this is a service industry!!!!! “If you want to book right away, gushed the e-mail simply click on “continue to flight results.” Of course that doesn’t get
you anywhere–fool, that’s me!! There are no other tabs or widgets or prompts to get you to “booking-a-flight,” so we went back to Air Miles.ca.
At this stage I wanted to ask Teresa-that helpful person from whom I received the e-mail, a couple of questions but she was beyond my growing frustration. I wanted to call her because
near the end of the email she wrote “feel free to let me know if I can be of “additional assistance to you.”
That of course its poppycock because it says quite plainly in another part of the air miles website …”we assure you that we will reply to your questions within 3 to 5 business days!!!!
OK so Teresa is not going to be of any help!!
Let’s go book something. Here we go, from travel assistance to a place to type in flying from YYC to YXE, but it will not let you enter the date on which you want to fly.
OK, I’ll just punch find flight info–uh oh, here’s a flag–it says: “oops, there is an error in your flight search please check the highlighted fields and try your search again.”
OK, so now if you punch in the to and fro(again) they will also allow you to punch in the date you want to fly!! Search..search..search–uh oh, another message:
“there’s no availability on the dates you have selected.” And then they let you know there’s a cash option. KAZAM. Magically there’s a flight for me. Cost $273.28!
Thanks for nothing Air Miles. Let me try something else. So I checked in with the FLIGHT NETWORK— YYC to YXE: cost $188.00.
I booked that flight for two, saved almost $200 dollars and spent no AIR Miles just so I can drive myself nuts in the future, (some rainy Wednesday afternoon) trying to book another flight to somewhere
with the assistance of the Air Miles network!!!
Given the short supply of “available flights on the dates I wish to fly” Air Miles ought to add the GRACE L. FERGUSON STORM DOOR and FLYING COMPANY to their roster of airlines.
Bob Newhart would have understood and appreciated the falldara, gobbledygook and poppycock(or is that poopycock) of trying to book a ticket when there are” no available flights on the dates
you wish to fly.” Pick another option! How about another website!!!!!!
BECAUSE You can’t get there from here!!
/…gasoline at the pumps: 126.1 at Sunoco, Shell, Esso, Husky and Petrocan.
Funny how they all picked the SAME number on the SAME day! What do we need five major oil companies when they all charge the same price?
Why not have just one ? Of course then you wouldn’t have all those different loyalty rewards programs, would you and that would be a shame.
?…the Competition bureau has stirred—it’s going after Bell, for not playing fair with us, consumers!!!! More tomorrow.
/…For whom the Bell tolls, the Bell tolls for thee, English!!!
Beginning this year Sweden will be teaching Mandarin in all elementary schools!
Holy Toledo!!!
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