Originally Posted by
TakeTwo
So I called up the local (Tokyo) Qantas office and for the first 10 minutes she gave me the roundabout saying there was nothing they could do for online ticket payment, if anything I'd have to go to the Joburg office in person (!!!), but with some prodding (it was a 40 minute call) she managed to a. give me a booking number, and b. send a message to her Joburg counterparts asking them to process my card manually. Mentioning it was a business class ticket for 3 seemed to help get her into action - by the end she was downright friendly. 90 minutes after the call I received a very satisfying automatic email with payment receipt and confirmation that the flights were booked. So it looks like I'll be traveling for a while!
... wait... Did you just get QF to issue an offline ex-JNB ticket while knowing that you were in Tokyo? Where you charged in ZAR or JPY (and if in JPY, at the South African price converted to Yen or at the Japan price)?
PS Himeno, that sounds like a very busy 4-6 weeks a year! Here I am worried that I'm trying to pack too many places in, and I've got a whole year
My last trip had a BOS-SEA via JFK and MIA.
A couple of years ago, I did HEL-xLHR-xDXB-xLHR-xHKG-xNRT-xSIN-xPER-MEL - non stop over 3 days. Sleeping on the plane for the most part. That last night in SIN I slept in the CX Skyview lounge.