Paper tickets when booking a flight online? Are we back in the 90’s?!
So, I’m going from Madrid to Guatemala in a few weeks and I had an open return ticket. But when I tried to use it, it seems like it only lasts for a year, and that time is gone, so, there goes some bucks that I won’t see again. Don’t you hate the small print conditions?
Next step, look up for cheap tickets, and for that you can always rely on the good Orbitz. I found a good ticket going through Ireland and the US (that’s quite a loop). They won’t take my Guatemalan credit card (VISA is worldwide, but cards are local after all), so the next choice was to try with the one from Spain. That didn’t work either, since the connection with the bank wasn’t working.
Finally I payed with a US debit card from an account in Miami. And there it was, ticket ready, now it was just about waiting for the date and hit the airport, right?
Well…guess what…I got an email the next day from Orbitz letting me know that my flight has old-fashion-paper-wasting-tickets. And they’re on an envelope on the way to my billing address.
So now, my plane ticket for a flight from Madrid to Guatemala is in Miami. Aren’t the online services convenient?
