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Old Aug 12, 2016 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Leo123
I was little bit late for the party and saw this fare after all major airlines had change their prices but hey you can always try smaller ones:

(sorry my english) I saw that AY, LA, JJ and S7 was still with the old fare and decided to give it a try. I first contacted travel agent here in Finland who have booked many RTW tickets. I told her that there is this good price from MPM under 3k and to be honest she laughed at me after she heard the price.
She told me that she have done these over 20 years and never saw DONE4 under 3k.. I asked to check this from Amadeus (i had flights/dates of course with me written) and after long stare she said ok and i can almost hear her thinking why i came to waste her time.
4-5 mins goes by and i hear "oh, this is strange. It looks that you were right". I had couple different answers in my mind but i kept them with me.

She contacted to AY and next morning i got call from TA that all good! She said that guy in the AY was wondering the price but all good. I had really busy day at the work and finally had time to call her 3:30 pm when the office closes at 4 pm. BOOM, they closes earlier today and doors have been closed from 3.

Well theres not much to do than wait for the morning and first thing i saw after wake up from EF is that AY have raised the price. Niiiice! Live and learn.

So i decided to do what every normal people would avoid and contacted to Siberian airlines... I hit them with the Facebook message and they gave me address where to contact. Whit no big hopes i sent them message about Explorer tickets.
But oh boy how good feeling is to be wrong whit your assumptions. I got mail from really good customer service representative Darya. We throw messages back and forth and got really nice itinerary for Done4 at 202,000 Rubles (USD3124).

I dont want to do same mistake what i did with AY so i gave my credit card numbers to Siberia and hoped the best.. Worries went away soon when i got some weird looking mails in russia but with the help of google translate these are confirmations that i got these ticketed
I took the booking reference and contacted to AY (i`am from HEL) and made double check that they can see my flights and ticket type is DONE4 and everything was just the way they should be.

At the end all good and got these still today!
^ Congrats! Persistence paid off. Enjoy your trip.
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