Comments | deponti: How to go broke travelling from Kochi to Bangalore

deponti

How to go broke travelling from Kochi to Bangalore

Sep 12, 2011 09:22

I'd booked a flight on Cleartrip dot com, and they've been reminding me to book my "free" ticket. The reason for those inverted commas was that they said only the base fare was free, and the taxes (which usually amount to 3 or 4 times the base ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

pondhopper September 12 2011, 11:38:10 UTC

They want you to see the world is what it looks like.
:D

deponti September 12 2011, 12:03:33 UTC

Ha, ha! Once I get out of Bangalore, might as well go to Cochin via Hong Kong!

88greenthumb September 13 2011, 00:36:54 UTC

Wow! Cochin via Hongkong is quite a stretch;)

deponti September 13 2011, 07:25:35 UTC

AND it will kill my purse!

prashanthchengi September 13 2011, 07:24:39 UTC

Oh Deepa! I looked up those airport codes and guess what ( ... )

prashanthchengi September 13 2011, 07:28:47 UTC

Erm, Deepa?

I checked out the site. It does mention 'Kochi, IN - Cochin (COK)' and 'Kochi, JP - Kochi (KCZ)'. Looks like somebody was in a big hurry to book tickets and did make a boo-boo!

deponti September 13 2011, 08:25:12 UTC

What are you errming about! I didn't see any choices when I clicked, I just typed in "Kochi" and this is what it gave me :)

deponti September 13 2011, 08:25:37 UTC

You can call it a bit of a COK-up!

prashanthchengi September 15 2011, 11:47:18 UTC

Uh, Deebah? I just tried with Chrome also. The auto-complete works just fine. Must be an issue with your settings. You ought to speak with a Chrome-Guru for that, I guess. Maybe your friend Chandan would be able to help.

deponti September 15 2011, 16:33:50 UTC

Chrome-Guru sounds nice! Om Hreem Chrome....

deponti September 15 2011, 16:34:35 UTC

krOm is one of the beejAksharam, by the way.

Om, hreem, krOm, kleem...and so on.