right timing for a Summer vacation in the middle of the flat wheat
belt. Man, the site is bad. I could not switch over to the Chinese
site to look up Shanghai office number to call. I had to do a
"Google"!!!! Come on! Then, when I got to the page via "Google" I
couldn't see a number for the local office. Wow. It was that
secretive. Probably some pee brain thought not having a line to
answer the phone will decrease one person at the office. Stupid.
There was a "400" number to call for both Beijing and Shanghai
offices. Guess what, it did not work!
Come the trusty Skype call out. I had to call Montreal from Shanghai
out of my own pocket to confirm a flight originating from this side of
the world. Talk about "globalization". Since we will be sitting in
the flat-bed section, I thought we don't have to pay for the Bike
bag. Wrong! There will be a surcharge for it! What? Hello? The
bike bag with the bike in it is less than 20Kg. Much less than other
passenger bags. Go figure. Even the AC agent on the other end of the
line commented on it, half laughingly said "must be some upper
management that has a smaller brain than you and I". I,
wholeheartedly, agreed. With this bike bag, I had to call Aeroplan to
"reserve" a space for it between YYZ and BOS. Man. The North
American airlines are really scraping the bottom. We travel far and
wide in Asia and never had any issue with bike on any airlines. Not
even a fuss. Must be the preach of "harmonious societies".
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