So, Vic and I stayed up till the wee hours of Monday just to avail of PAL's promo for the coming months.
It seemed like everyone had the same strategy as ours. I started my online search right before midnight. I figured, by the time it would finish searching, I would see the promo right before my eyes. Thirty minutes had passed, still no search results. Another twenty minutes resulted to nothing. We decided to sleep on it. I just knew the online reservation thingy of PAL just couldn't handle the load. Diba sila nag-stress test man lang? The site hangs on any ordinary day, why should I expect anything else on a major traffic day?
I woke up for Javi's 4am feeding. I tried searching once again. Sayang din naman kasi. The MNL-LAS quote is 16XX per person. Okay, lost cause na ito.
When I woke up once again at around 830am, I got a 300+ fare for the MNL-LAS route. I hurriedly got my card so I can proceed to the payment part. However, I realized, I should check if I can also get a cheap fare going back. LAS-MNL turned out to be 1000+ per person, excluding other fees and surcharges. It is a good thing that the site had problems proceeding to the payment section. I decided against getting the $300+ fare.
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Someone from N@W mentioned that she was able to get a good deal. She was able to enter the passenger info and her credit card details. Afterwards, the system stayed there. She called PAL to check if it was charged to her account. They said her reservation went through but she had to go to the nearest PAL office to finish the transaction.
Akala ko ba online lang?!?
Real Deal my foot!
It seemed like everyone had the same strategy as ours. I started my online search right before midnight. I figured, by the time it would finish searching, I would see the promo right before my eyes. Thirty minutes had passed, still no search results. Another twenty minutes resulted to nothing. We decided to sleep on it. I just knew the online reservation thingy of PAL just couldn't handle the load. Diba sila nag-stress test man lang? The site hangs on any ordinary day, why should I expect anything else on a major traffic day?
I woke up for Javi's 4am feeding. I tried searching once again. Sayang din naman kasi. The MNL-LAS quote is 16XX per person. Okay, lost cause na ito.
When I woke up once again at around 830am, I got a 300+ fare for the MNL-LAS route. I hurriedly got my card so I can proceed to the payment part. However, I realized, I should check if I can also get a cheap fare going back. LAS-MNL turned out to be 1000+ per person, excluding other fees and surcharges. It is a good thing that the site had problems proceeding to the payment section. I decided against getting the $300+ fare.
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Someone from N@W mentioned that she was able to get a good deal. She was able to enter the passenger info and her credit card details. Afterwards, the system stayed there. She called PAL to check if it was charged to her account. They said her reservation went through but she had to go to the nearest PAL office to finish the transaction.
Akala ko ba online lang?!?
Real Deal my foot!
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