Just bought a ticket on airtickets before reading this thread..

The booking process seemed legit, ticket was advertised about 10 euros cheaper than budgetair. Got my confirmation and ticket number via email minutes later. It's a JNB-BRU rt on QR.

Started to read this thread as my booking didn't pull up on QR website, till I tried reversing first and last name. That worked and I could do seat selection just fine. I also tried to input my FFP number, but that gave a 'name mismatch' error. What was interesting however was that in the contact details section, a different email address was pre-filled: "[email protected]". Makes me wonder whether airtickets.es and tripsta.com are the same company?

Anyhow, all flights are on status confirmed on QR website. I assume the JNB check-in lady won't even notice the names are reversed. I'll use my plastic FFP card to get lounge access, and try to retrocredit miles after the flights.

My credit card statement (in ZAR) shows a transaction which is about 28 euros higher than the ticket price. Can't really see whether this is due to a bad exchange rate or to accrued conversion costs as the transaction is still 'pending'. Think I'll never know.

I'll try to leave everything as-is now as not to awake any airtickets agent, and hope I can fly, as this would be my prime reason for buying the tix