I decided to try getting my aer lingus profile sorted out, since it's kinda annoying that I can't look up flights I've booked nor update my profile to have a proper phone number, so I phoned their tech support today. The tech support starts out with a recorded message giving you what I presume is the FAQ, after which you get the usual "press 1 for the guy on the left with a three-ring binder, press 2 for the guy on the right". A pleasant but plainly non-technical girl attempted to guide me through the use of Internet Explorer, which conversation featured such gems as "you should go to www.aerlingus.com, not www.flyaerlingus.com" (try it; column A redirects you immediately to column B) and "what is your broadband provider, sir?" "uhhhh, I don't think that's an issue. I'm in the office." (unsaid: "We've probably got more bandwidth than you have."). Ultimately she concluded it would have to go to the IT department, who she was going to have to email, and she told me she'd call me back tomorrow "between 9:30 and 12". I'm curious to see how this pans out...
more aer lingus stupidity
Aug. 26th, 2004 12:34 pmPast woes documented elsewhere. Just now I tried to log into their site using my soon-to-expire frequent flyer card. For most of my attempts I got a screen telling me that my session had timed out, even when I tried from a brand new clean installation of Konqueror on an entirely different machine. On the one occasion when I did make it past this stupidity, they appeared to have already flushed all my details out of the membership data. What a complete shower of...