A-AvantGarde
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Hi all, strange one for you and would appreciate any advice on this:
We're scheduled to be away over Xmas in Bangkok. However, given the recent unrest / tension out there my wife is becoming more nervous about this (we will be travelling with 2 young kids, 3yrs & 6 yrs).
Now, our flights are booked with lastminute.com and we're scheduled to fly via Malaysian Airlines.
So our route is:
London Heathrow (LHR) to Kuala Lumpur (KLL)
Kuala Lumpur (KLL) to Bangkok (BKK)
Return is the mirror of this.
I'm a little more relaxed about the situation but thought as our flight goes via Malaysia that perhaps there is no harm in asking the question about cancelling / forefitting the KLL to BKK portion as we've never been to KL and have heard some good things about the place. So, last night I called lastminute.com and posed the question.
That went pretty smoothly and the lady on the phone thought it should be possible but would check with the airline in the morning which they then did. I then got this response via email:
This is in regards to the above mentioned order number for which I have checked the details and to change the routing we have to recalculate the fare and the fare which you have selected it is a special fare and for the routing which is from LHR to KUL and KUL to LHR, fare is not available so we will not be able to change the flight routing.
To their credit lastminute.com have been effective at taking the query and coming back to me.
I also spoke to Malaysian Airlines in the UK this afternoon and they said that it should be possible to do but there may be a surcharge to pay by forefitting the KUL-BKK and BKK to KUL segment (as apparently it is cheaper to fly to Bangkok than it is to fly to KL!). They also had a note on our flight reference that said that they had a query about this request from our agent but referred me back to them saying that they are unable to make any changes!
However, they weren't able to tell me what the cost would be and said that I need to speak with lastminute.com
It seems a bit bizzare that we're on a flight from the UK to KLL, then have to wait for a few hours for a flight to BKK (and the same on the return!).
We are keeping a look out at the news and guidance from the Foreign Office. Given the current policitcal unrest in Thailand, I'm a little nervous about travelling to Thailand now with two young children. I think back in 2010 the unrest caused the airport to shut for a few weeks - I also heard today that a friend of a colleauge got stuck out there at that time (althought that may not be such a bad thing having some mroe time off !!!)
As a layman it seems a little odd that this is a problem (although I do appreciate the economics of these things can sometimes be a little odd). I am sure that there must be other people that may want to fly on the KLL-BKK segment!
A longshot, does anyone have any suggestions or know anyone at lastminute.com or Malaysian Airlines that could possibly assist?
We're scheduled to be away over Xmas in Bangkok. However, given the recent unrest / tension out there my wife is becoming more nervous about this (we will be travelling with 2 young kids, 3yrs & 6 yrs).
Now, our flights are booked with lastminute.com and we're scheduled to fly via Malaysian Airlines.
So our route is:
London Heathrow (LHR) to Kuala Lumpur (KLL)
Kuala Lumpur (KLL) to Bangkok (BKK)
Return is the mirror of this.
I'm a little more relaxed about the situation but thought as our flight goes via Malaysia that perhaps there is no harm in asking the question about cancelling / forefitting the KLL to BKK portion as we've never been to KL and have heard some good things about the place. So, last night I called lastminute.com and posed the question.
That went pretty smoothly and the lady on the phone thought it should be possible but would check with the airline in the morning which they then did. I then got this response via email:
This is in regards to the above mentioned order number for which I have checked the details and to change the routing we have to recalculate the fare and the fare which you have selected it is a special fare and for the routing which is from LHR to KUL and KUL to LHR, fare is not available so we will not be able to change the flight routing.
To their credit lastminute.com have been effective at taking the query and coming back to me.
I also spoke to Malaysian Airlines in the UK this afternoon and they said that it should be possible to do but there may be a surcharge to pay by forefitting the KUL-BKK and BKK to KUL segment (as apparently it is cheaper to fly to Bangkok than it is to fly to KL!). They also had a note on our flight reference that said that they had a query about this request from our agent but referred me back to them saying that they are unable to make any changes!
However, they weren't able to tell me what the cost would be and said that I need to speak with lastminute.com
It seems a bit bizzare that we're on a flight from the UK to KLL, then have to wait for a few hours for a flight to BKK (and the same on the return!).
We are keeping a look out at the news and guidance from the Foreign Office. Given the current policitcal unrest in Thailand, I'm a little nervous about travelling to Thailand now with two young children. I think back in 2010 the unrest caused the airport to shut for a few weeks - I also heard today that a friend of a colleauge got stuck out there at that time (althought that may not be such a bad thing having some mroe time off !!!)
As a layman it seems a little odd that this is a problem (although I do appreciate the economics of these things can sometimes be a little odd). I am sure that there must be other people that may want to fly on the KLL-BKK segment!
A longshot, does anyone have any suggestions or know anyone at lastminute.com or Malaysian Airlines that could possibly assist?
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