I'm leaving Melbourne in two days. How exciting is that?
Going back to Jakarta, will apply for a Chinese visa, yet again, and will be flying to China the coming Sunday. Hopefully it won't be that cold. I heard it goes down to ten degrees below zero. I'm not really scared of that, just afraid that mom can't stand the cold.
I almost had a problem with Singapore Airlines again.
Here's the scoop.
I tried to get a ticket as I knew it's going to be hard to get since it was sort of last minute. Checked their website and it said a seat was available.
Not a problem, I think, but being a lazy person to fill in forms online, I decided to call SIA and wanted to book on the phone.
Had to wait aroudn fifteen minutes on the phone.
Not a problem, it was at work anyway. So after fifteen minutes I spoke to one of the customer service representatives. Goes something like this.
SIA Rep: Hi, how can I help you today?
Me: I'd like to book a return ticket from Melbourne to Jakarta with a stop over in Singapore on the way back.
SIA Rep: certainly, when do you want to fly out to Jakarta?
Me: 12th or 13th of December if possible
SIA Rep: please wait while I check if any seats are available
Me: thanks
SIA Rep: I'm sorry sir, those dates are not available, is there any other dates you'd prefer?
Me: around that date, but it should be after the 13th
SIA Rep: Let me check again... (and after a few seconds pause) I'm sorry sir, the 14th, 15th and 16th is full. In fact, the whole month of December is booked out
At this point, I was thinking to myself, how can that be possible that there's no single seat left for the entire month? That could be true but I refused to believe that.
Me: but the website told me that a seat is still available on the 15th
SIA Rep: then I would recommend you to buy your ticket from the website
Me: OK, thanks a lot
Then I hang up and (sot of) ran as fast as I could to my desk, re-log in to my KrisFlyer account and filled in those online forms I filled in earlier hoping that the same seat was still available.
It was!!!
I was relieved.
So I'll be home in two days and hopefully visa application isn't troublesome.
Tell you all about it later.
