Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yahoobb218120102054.bbtec.NET!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Emergency flight home: any good ticket agents out there? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:33:43 +0900 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <40285117.8E3B6088@yahoo.co.jp> References: <67aee454.0402091640.10431878@posting.google.com> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp NNTP-Posting-Host: yahoobb218120102054.bbtec.net (218.120.102.54) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076384049 37841491 D 218.120.102.54 ([138107]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:11947 Hokousha wrote: > "Elbow" wrote in message news:... > > 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. > > 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. 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.