Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!hania From: hania@rabbit.UUCP (Hania Gajewska) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Experience with Frontier Horizon Air Lines (long) Message-ID: <3305@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 12:34:48 EST Article-I.D.: rabbit.3305 Posted: Wed Nov 28 12:34:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 04:06:04 EST References: <886@ihuxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 I agree with most of your morals, except the last one ("Don't buy your own tickets"). It should read: "Make sure you know what you're doing before you buy your own tickets". After many bad experiences (of the sort you describe) with travel agents, I ALWAYS make my own travel arrangements. There are books that publish all the flights available between any destinations, including the information on the number of stops en route. From those books I pick the flights that seem convenient, then I check with the particular airlines for the lowest rates. The travel agent has nothing to gain by finding the lowest rates for you (not even a return customer: chances are you would never find out there was a lower fare available). There are also things that you might think of that the travel agent would never know about ("Wow, there is a flight through Denver -- if I take it, I would get the chance to see Aunt Mildred"). Maybe an ultra competent travel agent would change my mind, but for now, I haven't found one that can do for me anything I can't do myself, and so travel agents head my list of useless professions. Hania