"mr.sumo.snr." <llanelli14@SPAMSUCKBANANAS.yahoo.com> wrote in message

> Potentially, whichever airline it is might have its own booking agency.
> Lufthansa and UAL certainly do and I've never been quoted cheaper by an
> independent travel agent for just a 'plain' plane ticket.

You want exactly the only thing they propose. As you say, they sell "plain"
tickets at their booking center.

I need discount tickets. If that was a small difference (1or 2 man for
instance), I could afford. That's not the case in peak season : Lufthansa
proposed more than the double of the price I've got, and that was with their
reduction for early booking. Already last month, they indicated I'd be on
the cancel-machi list for both ways.
For fun, I've just checked KAL's direct reservation center, they cannot say
online if seats are available, but for the 4 flights I'll take, they say the
price would be 690 000 yen (+ taxes ), in cattle class. Even if they accept
my card, that's above the weekly purchase limit !

The dates I wanted are now all booked everywhere. So, I'll stay with the
other agency, even if I don't like them.

>Plus you get an actual ticket, not a voucher, which
> means one less queue you have to stand in at the airport.

I fly from Kanku, I've never seen a queue there. In average, that takes me 5
minutes to do all the check in.
And I know by experience that it's 100 times less worse to lose a voucher
than a real ticket.

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