1
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,760
Speaker 1: From the Zidium podcast network. It's Fleetforn and Haley's it's

2
00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:05,720
Speaker 1: a little bit of card.

3
00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,040
Speaker 2: Welcome to a little bit of pod, guys. I've got

4
00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,080
Speaker 2: an update on my free flights, Saga. Do you remember

5
00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:13,840
Speaker 2: about this?

6
00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:14,480
Speaker 1: Correct?

7
00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,239
Speaker 2: Yes, for those that missed it, it was in the

8
00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,239
Speaker 2: Big Pod like a couple of weeks ago, we talked

9
00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,720
Speaker 2: about this. I booked some flights on the eighth of February,

10
00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 2: and still to this moment, as we record this and

11
00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,080
Speaker 2: you listen to it, dear listener, my credit card has

12
00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,280
Speaker 2: not processed the payment for these flights.

13
00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,879
Speaker 1: And I rang the and I mentioned this.

14
00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,599
Speaker 2: I rang the credit card and they said that they

15
00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,519
Speaker 2: had authorized the company to take the payment, but they

16
00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,680
Speaker 2: haven't taken it. It's not pending. I have a ticket issued,

17
00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,839
Speaker 2: I have a ticket number and referenced. So for all

18
00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,880
Speaker 2: intentsive purposes, all intents and purposes and purposes, it's.

19
00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:01,280
Speaker 3: Intense intents for all intense purposes, purposes and cans and

20
00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,280
Speaker 3: camping for all camping and purposes intense.

21
00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,760
Speaker 1: I have intents. I have the ticket to fly.

22
00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:08,480
Speaker 4: Hang on.

23
00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,160
Speaker 3: It's so dodgy, though, like I know, at some point

24
00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,440
Speaker 3: the airline is going to go we're missing a couple

25
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,040
Speaker 3: of hundred bucks.

26
00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,400
Speaker 1: But then we and I mentioned this week we talked

27
00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:19,760
Speaker 1: about this.

28
00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,759
Speaker 2: Our friends also have done this and had free flights

29
00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,560
Speaker 2: when they when they claimed points for a flight and

30
00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,480
Speaker 2: they never got reversed and they flew anyway.

31
00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,200
Speaker 1: So this and I've.

32
00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,000
Speaker 2: Googled this, and apparently this every now and again, very

33
00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:34,959
Speaker 2: rarely happened.

34
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,280
Speaker 4: So you're just a lucky boy.

35
00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,640
Speaker 3: Well, I mean until you are sat buckled and taken

36
00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,560
Speaker 3: off in that flight.

37
00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,320
Speaker 4: I think there's going to be a little anxiety around.

38
00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,480
Speaker 1: It until your land flights through the flights you booked.

39
00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:49,600
Speaker 1: Was it one way?

40
00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,200
Speaker 2: So it's but like robbing a band or killing someone,

41
00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:53,840
Speaker 2: you know, you're always looking over your shoulder for when

42
00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,720
Speaker 2: you're getting arrested.

43
00:01:59,120 --> 00:01:59,920
Speaker 4: We shouldn't have done that.

44
00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,720
Speaker 2: One day, I know, you lie awake, You're like, well,

45
00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,200
Speaker 2: are they going to bust my door down to today?

46
00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:05,680
Speaker 3: This gay?

47
00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:06,880
Speaker 5: No?

48
00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,079
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, I'm going to do

49
00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:08,560
Speaker 1: the right thing.

50
00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,320
Speaker 2: Plus, I don't want to be stuck in some country

51
00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,960
Speaker 2: and then have to pay more or having to pay

52
00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,000
Speaker 2: more later in the year when they do their accounting

53
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,079
Speaker 2: and realize that they fucked up. So I reached out

54
00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 2: to this airline. I rang them, I rang them, and

55
00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,919
Speaker 2: the lady. The lady on the line said, how awfully queer.

56
00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,200
Speaker 2: I'll say, this is awfully queer.

57
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,720
Speaker 4: Having you look at my computer, hair all flicker, she.

58
00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,320
Speaker 2: Said, I can see that it's ticketed and that you're booked,

59
00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,600
Speaker 2: and it's all good at my end. And I said, yeah,

60
00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,519
Speaker 2: but you haven't taken the money. And she said, of

61
00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,400
Speaker 2: all the years I've worked here, I don't know how

62
00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,720
Speaker 2: many that is, but of all the years, that indicates

63
00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,160
Speaker 2: quite a few. She said, I've never seen this happen.

64
00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,840
Speaker 1: And I said, how awfully.

65
00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,880
Speaker 4: Queer, how awfully queer.

66
00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,880
Speaker 2: So then you're too, how awfully queiz Yes, And so

67
00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,280
Speaker 2: she said, you've got what I would do is email

68
00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,480
Speaker 2: booking at airline. It's an overseas air line, So I

69
00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,000
Speaker 2: don't feel bad about this, and she she spelled it

70
00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,720
Speaker 2: out b O okay, I n G.

71
00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,440
Speaker 1: Thank you for spelling up booking.

72
00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,200
Speaker 3: Well he did go to one okay, I n G

73
00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,760
Speaker 3: b I n G okay iron book name.

74
00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,760
Speaker 2: So email this forward my e techer and say, look

75
00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,560
Speaker 2: here's what's happened.

76
00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,480
Speaker 1: It's awfully queer.

77
00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,520
Speaker 4: How old did you put that subject? Awfully queer as

78
00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:32,839
Speaker 4: a curl.

79
00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I said a look.

80
00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,560
Speaker 2: As much as I'd love a free flight, I'd love

81
00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 2: for this to be rectified, because I don't want to

82
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:45,680
Speaker 2: be stuck. Two two days later, two days later, an

83
00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,240
Speaker 2: email back from the airline system admin. This email doesn't exist.

84
00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,960
Speaker 2: What booking at airline? The one this email this lady

85
00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:56,840
Speaker 2: gave me doesn't exist.

86
00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,360
Speaker 4: It's you put it be okay I G and be name.

87
00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:07,400
Speaker 2: Yes, I did okay iron g okay I g okay

88
00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,720
Speaker 2: Iron and booking was his name?

89
00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,800
Speaker 1: Oh okay iron G.

90
00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,880
Speaker 4: We can't do the whole thing, flitch.

91
00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,320
Speaker 1: And booking up petree K I S S I N

92
00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,839
Speaker 1: G okay. So that doesn't didn't exist.

93
00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,320
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I go online and I find a

94
00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,400
Speaker 2: number for the New Zealand office.

95
00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,600
Speaker 5: Jesus, the amount of hours you're pumping into so with

96
00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,440
Speaker 5: you more or less have paid for it, like your

97
00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,520
Speaker 5: own fucking time trying here at airline.

98
00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,160
Speaker 2: If you see k I N G, if you see

99
00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,039
Speaker 2: k I G, if you see k I N G

100
00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,000
Speaker 2: Iron trying.

101
00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,840
Speaker 1: So I there's this number for that.

102
00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,360
Speaker 2: It must be some kind of office that deals with

103
00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,760
Speaker 2: a lot of airlines and book.

104
00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,120
Speaker 4: You know, within within.

105
00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,240
Speaker 2: A country they contract out to deal with the customer service. Well,

106
00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,360
Speaker 2: I have tried to ring this place. I reckon ten times.

107
00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,440
Speaker 2: I left an email a message we'll call you back you,

108
00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,039
Speaker 2: you know, so that you don't have to wait on

109
00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,159
Speaker 2: the line, because at one sage I waited like half

110
00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:12,679
Speaker 2: an hour.

111
00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,120
Speaker 1: Just so I was working away.

112
00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,000
Speaker 2: I emailed them and said I need help with this booking.

113
00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:23,000
Speaker 2: Please call me back a week ago. The thing has happened.

114
00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,240
Speaker 1: I have fucking tried. I'm giving up. I'm stopping now.

115
00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,560
Speaker 4: The only thing is is this a real airline like

116
00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:29,520
Speaker 4: other reviews of this?

117
00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the legit whibs. I booked on

118
00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,520
Speaker 2: the airline directly. I'm calling the airlines.

119
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,679
Speaker 1: Like it's fun.

120
00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:38,640
Speaker 4: Then I don't know what to do.

121
00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm giving I wouldn't have even tried trying.

122
00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've tried many different things.

123
00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,440
Speaker 1: I've tried. I've tried, do you know what, free flights

124
00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:56,240
Speaker 1: for it to make it sex, And now now we're

125
00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,360
Speaker 1: trying to make it. Yeah.

126
00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,040
Speaker 2: Well, if they finally email me back, maybe I'll respond

127
00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,080
Speaker 2: to them, or if they do call me back, I've tried.

128
00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,159
Speaker 4: You know, that's free money.

129
00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,200
Speaker 2: Now I am almost thinking I should request a refund,

130
00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,040
Speaker 2: gets the money, and then booking another flight where they

131
00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,240
Speaker 2: actually take my money.

132
00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,480
Speaker 4: You've got a free flight. Now you get free money.

133
00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,919
Speaker 2: But then that's fraud right now, that that is the

134
00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,239
Speaker 2: virgin on fraud.

135
00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,680
Speaker 1: It's given fraud, it's giving, it's fraud. Live, it's it's fraud.

136
00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,400
Speaker 1: But then is it fraud when they're in another country? Yes,

137
00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:36,799
Speaker 1: ah okay