My sister is coming to town and she found the cheapest flights using cheaptickets.com. I tried to pay for her ticket, but I didn’t have her frequent flier number, and she wasn’t answering the phone because she was busy watching the stupid TV. “Oh, I had to watch Lost and West Wing.” Well, in the time between 8PM and 10PM when her stupid shows were over, the web site has deteriorated. First, it wouldn’t let me pay for the ticket, then it wouldn’t render. It’s slowly coming back to life.
So I started looking up cheaptickets.com on the internet. Searching google, I found that as recently as July of 2001, cheaptickets.com was being called an “INTERNET AIRFARE SWINDLE!!!” on misc.consumers on the usenet. Most recently, they sold email addresses to “affiliates” leading to more unwanted commercial email (UCE, or spam in simpler terms).
Anyway, I have to pay for her frigging ticket, so I figure I get to complain. We’ll see if cheaptickets.com will let me buy the tickets.
I found the same tickets on Travelocity, but it cost more. Peter’s folks just bought tickets from cheaptickets, I think. You could have called me during West Wing. They are getting too Republican, so I might have to quit watching it, anyway.