Guess what? Just when we thought we have settled everything for our honeymoon, Aegean Airlines sent an email notification that our flight from Santorini to Athens will be delayed!!!! We were due to fly from Santorini to Athens on 1 Dec before taking a connecting flight on Emirates back to Singapore.
The departure time for our Emirates flight is at 15:50, and according to the revised flight schedule for Aegean Airlines, we will only arrive at Athens at 15:35!!!! It is impossible to catch our flight back to Singapore lor! Arrrgh...
Anyway, Aegean Airlines proposed that they give us a refund, but thats beside the point!
1) The only other airline that flies from Santorini to Athens is Olympic Airlines, and the departure time is at 07:00. What an unearthly hour!!! We have to rot for 7.5 hrs before the Emirates flight!
2) Air ticket prices have soared over the past few months. We are lucky we booked our flight early. Our round-trip flight on Aegean Airlines costed only EUR 152.78 for 2 pax but now, it costs EUR 228.96! This price increase applies to Olympic Airlines as well, and the fare for a one-way flight from Santorini to Athens cost EUR 101 PER PAX!!!! So even if Aegean Airlines were to cancel and refund us our fare for one-way flight, the refund of EUR 76 is not enough to cover the cost of the Olympic Airlines ticket which amounts to EUR 202 and we have to fork out the additional EUR 126 from our own pockets!!!!!
3) It is highly possible we may NOT be able to claim back the additional EUR 126 from our insurance agency.
4) We have to check out super early in order to catch the Olympic Airlines flight! Super early as in at 5.15am!!! So early also don't know got cab or not??
Kitty (aka Meowvin) emailed Aegeans Airlines to request for a refund PLUS compensation for the additional EUR 126 but they refused to pay us the compensation amount. Undeterred, the old cat called them up personally and hounded the other party for a good 30 mins over the phone. No choice, since we have to settle this quickly and book our Olympic Airlines flight. According to him, it was hard to converse with them as their foreign accent was pretty strong. He had to speak very, very slowly. Boy I am so glad I didn't have to do the dirty job. I think I would have given up after 15 mins at most, lol. Anyway, the other party was stubborn and refused to budge, but so was the old cat.
The old cat managed to speak with a higher level staff and guess what? Aegean Airlines agreed to refund us EUR 76 (for one-way) plus compensate us the additional EUR 126 we had to pay for the Olympic Airlines tickets!! Wahahahahaha we won!! Yay!! I bet Aegean Airlines must be feeling rather peeved, since the total amount (EUR 202) they have to pay us is even more than our round trip ticket (EUR 152.78)!
3) It is highly possible we may NOT be able to claim back the additional EUR 126 from our insurance agency.
4) We have to check out super early in order to catch the Olympic Airlines flight! Super early as in at 5.15am!!! So early also don't know got cab or not??
Kitty (aka Meowvin) emailed Aegeans Airlines to request for a refund PLUS compensation for the additional EUR 126 but they refused to pay us the compensation amount. Undeterred, the old cat called them up personally and hounded the other party for a good 30 mins over the phone. No choice, since we have to settle this quickly and book our Olympic Airlines flight. According to him, it was hard to converse with them as their foreign accent was pretty strong. He had to speak very, very slowly. Boy I am so glad I didn't have to do the dirty job. I think I would have given up after 15 mins at most, lol. Anyway, the other party was stubborn and refused to budge, but so was the old cat.
The old cat managed to speak with a higher level staff and guess what? Aegean Airlines agreed to refund us EUR 76 (for one-way) plus compensate us the additional EUR 126 we had to pay for the Olympic Airlines tickets!! Wahahahahaha we won!! Yay!! I bet Aegean Airlines must be feeling rather peeved, since the total amount (EUR 202) they have to pay us is even more than our round trip ticket (EUR 152.78)!
Anyway, we have booked our Olympic Airlines flight... hopefully there will be no more flight schedule changes!
-Phebe
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