kuri wrote:
> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> 
> 
>>Is there such an animal?
>>
>>We have launched a new program in Sapporo, and as a result some of the
>>applicants are going to need connecting flights (mostly from either
>>Tokyo or Nagoya).
> 
>
> The problem is the travel agents find that mendo-kusai. If you ask naively
> : "How does that cost from Dublin to Chitose ?", they'll all tell you it's
> the price of Dublin-London + London-Tokyo + Tokyo-Chitose. The amateurish
> ones (Across, etc..) tend to say it's impossible to get even normal
> discounts on domestic flight. Others never suggest it but when I ask, they
> accept to spend the time  necessary to check and negociate the domestic
> flights I indicate them. That's the same thing when you get tickets in
> Europe, if you don't know that you can get discounts and additonnal flights,
> they'll never tell you.
> 
> Kuri
> 

Are you saying the vaunted TAs don't do a good job?