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Old Jul 18, 2014, 9:41 am
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Originally Posted by JDiver
AmAAzing. I've found some agents are geographically impaired. One insisted there were no award seats in J on QF on a particular date (LAX-ADL) - when I pointed out she was not looking at LAX-BNE-ADL, but rather only SYD and MEL, her comment was "Oh, BRIZZ-BAYNE!"

And yes, some insist on calling it a luxury tax - but the APD is the standard rate for ~anything 40" pitch or greater, and it's the discounted rate for anything less. Nasty little money grabbing by HM Revenue and Customs...
It threw me for a minute when you moved this.

Often times, booking the open jaw is not worth the extra time getting to DUB, overnighting if needed, etc. This time...yeah...

The agent was perfectly nice, but their knowledge of geography...well...

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