In article <dfidnShnVqTZs67fRVn-pw@rogers.com>, SteveBrady
<steve.brady@(remove> wrote:

> I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain!
> So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...

In this case, that's a good idea.

Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of
thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get
a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a
number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo
flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another
flight.

A travel agent doesn't just go to the same internet site you can and
book your flight for a fee... They work for their money. I'll use my
agent even when I want to rent a vehicle for a week. She charges me $10
and saves me $100.

But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And
let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada? People
expected them to survive? When they started flying I knew they didn't
have a hope, and there was no way I would have booked with them. Hell,
they had more service complaints that Air Canada, and were less than
1/3 the size of AC. Now THAT'S an accomplishment!

--
"The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and B,
sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

 

In article <dfidnShnVqTZs67fRVn-pw@rogers.com>, SteveBrady
<steve.brady@(remove> wrote:

> I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain!
> So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...

In this case, that's a good idea.

Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of
thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get
a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a
number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo
flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another
flight.

A travel agent doesn't just go to the same internet site you can and
book your flight for a fee... They work for their money. I'll use my
agent even when I want to rent a vehicle for a week. She charges me $10
and saves me $100.

But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And
let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada? People
expected them to survive? When they started flying I knew they didn't
have a hope, and there was no way I would have booked with them. Hell,
they had more service complaints that Air Canada, and were less than
1/3 the size of AC. Now THAT'S an accomplishment!

--
"The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and B,
sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

 

Or the messenger, rather than the blood sucking lawyer.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

SteveBrady wrote:
>
> I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain!
> So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...
>
> I think some ppl get the impression that it's like one of those 'midnight
> moves' where the company has dissipated in to the ether and there's no where
> to go and yell.

 

Or the messenger, rather than the blood sucking lawyer.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

SteveBrady wrote:
>
> I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain!
> So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...
>
> I think some ppl get the impression that it's like one of those 'midnight
> moves' where the company has dissipated in to the ether and there's no where
> to go and yell.

 

Or the messenger, rather than the blood sucking lawyer.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

SteveBrady wrote:
>
> I think we typically go for the nearest person in the chain!
> So, we go to the travel agent, cuz we purchased through them....etc...
>
> I think some ppl get the impression that it's like one of those 'midnight
> moves' where the company has dissipated in to the ether and there's no where
> to go and yell.

 

On 12-Mar-2005, "Brian Barnson" <deathtospammers@ethanol.com> wrote:

> The concept
> of Limited Liability is stretched pretty thin here.

What limited liability? As CEO, he is not at arm's length
and is _fully_ liable. The entire board of directors should
be stripped of every penny they ever hoped to have.

Mike

 

On 12-Mar-2005, "Brian Barnson" <deathtospammers@ethanol.com> wrote:

> The concept
> of Limited Liability is stretched pretty thin here.

What limited liability? As CEO, he is not at arm's length
and is _fully_ liable. The entire board of directors should
be stripped of every penny they ever hoped to have.

Mike

 

On 12-Mar-2005, "Brian Barnson" <deathtospammers@ethanol.com> wrote:

> The concept
> of Limited Liability is stretched pretty thin here.

What limited liability? As CEO, he is not at arm's length
and is _fully_ liable. The entire board of directors should
be stripped of every penny they ever hoped to have.

Mike

 

> Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of
> thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get
> a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a
> number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo
> flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another
> flight.

Depends on the province you live in, I beleive BC, ONT, QUE all have these
funds.

> But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And
> let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada?

It cost more then $1 to put your sorry a$$ in that seat. Even WestJet is
under cutting many of its seats.


Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont. if they want to fly the money making
triangles.

I for one am glad to see jetsgo turn to jestgone, I feel for the employees
and their families but as they said to me and many of my co-workers a few
short months ago "too bad, if your CEO was smarter you would be smiling to"
reference to their logo.

 

> Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of
> thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get
> a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a
> number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo
> flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another
> flight.

Depends on the province you live in, I beleive BC, ONT, QUE all have these
funds.

> But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And
> let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada?

It cost more then $1 to put your sorry a$$ in that seat. Even WestJet is
under cutting many of its seats.


Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont. if they want to fly the money making
triangles.

I for one am glad to see jetsgo turn to jestgone, I feel for the employees
and their families but as they said to me and many of my co-workers a few
short months ago "too bad, if your CEO was smarter you would be smiling to"
reference to their logo.