Emergency flight home: any good ticket agents out there?
Elbow
help with any good ticket agents,
Bound for Heathrow UK. Direct flight.
many thanks
Haluk Skywalker
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I used to get some very competitive rates from Map Tour. I'm sorry I don't
have their number with me.
Gerry
<tokyoelb...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
I'm unsure about international flights, but when it was a close
relative my family found that we could show them the obit and they gave
us a sizeable discount, 40% or some such. This was long long ago,
though, in a galaxy far far away...
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"Elbow" <tokyoelb...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
> I have to go home ASAP for a family bereavement and I'm hoping someone can
> help with any good ticket agents,
> Bound for Heathrow UK. Direct flight.
Check the flights/companies/conditions on ABroad's webpage and go to JTB
with the details, passport, money or credit card. They can book you any
discount flight you indicate them, they don't use their brain enough to get
the idea of telling lies about
avaibility (which is the big game of the agents for gaigins.). You'll get
your reservation confirmed before your quit the shop and you'll pick up the
tickets at the airport. I also find them convenient because they have
agencies in most big cities in the world, and you just need a local phone
call to change your return reservation.
Discount deals may require booking 48 hours in advance, so maybe you'll have
to pay more than expected, whatever the agency. .
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mr.sumo snr.
> I have to go home ASAP for a family bereavement and I'm hoping someone can
> help with any good ticket agents,
> Bound for Heathrow UK. Direct flight.
>
Sorry to hear your bad news.
Lufthansa are as good as direct to the UK - especially if in fact the South
East isn't exactly where you need to end up. 90 minutes at Frankfurt could
save you a bundle over a direct flight.
You can buy direct from them too, using a credit card. Freephone number is
0120-051-844 (24 hours) but call in normal office hours and you'll get the
local staff with the best knowledge; and explain your situation.
I always fly Lufthansa to Europe, and always buy direct. Admittedly with at
least 2 months notice, but try them.
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jonathan
Hokousha
> help with any good ticket agents,
> Bound for Heathrow UK. Direct flight.
It may be best to talk to the airlines directly. Some of them do offer
a highly discounted bereavement fare that may be better than anything
the agents can offer.
Tim
Eric Takabayashi
When I showed up at the JAL counter at Hakata Airport after my father died, they gave me the one year in advance
booking rate, which was 130,000 yen instead of 300,000. That was a good deal at the time.
Elbow
places?
cheers
"Eric Takabayashi" <eta...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
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mr.sumo snr.
http://tinyurl.com/2wfjg should be a start as far as airlines are concerned.
I always get discount travel shop numbers from the Daily Yomiuri but here's
another start http://tinyurl.com/2wfjg but there were 989 hits for a Travel
Agency search of Tokyo.
Good luck.
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jonathan
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"Elbow" <tokyoelb...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
> Thanks for all the input, does anyone have any telephone numbers of these
> places?
I usually get all the adresses and phone numbers of agencies and companies
from there :
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