[Yak] Air unfare - don't travel Air France on a Friday!

[Vik]

A blog post about traveling with a bike that I thought was quite funny:

http://evilmoose.shafted.com.au/?p=1044

I'll be flying with two full sized bikes at X'mas so I'm eagerly  
awaiting my own personal battle with airline check in staff...=-)~

safe riding,

Vik
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On 1-Oct-08, at 2:32 PM, Peter Saint James wrote:

>
> On 30  September2008, at 5:28 PM, Galfromdownunder wrote:
>
>> He was traveling with Air France and was charged 150 euros per  
>> bike. In Paris they wouldn't give them their boarding passes until  
>> he paid the fee ($450.00 US dollars 2 bikes). They "knew" they  
>> were with the Davis Bike Club as the group all traveled together  
>> with their giveaway big bike cases. From USA to France they were  
>> NOT charged - they just said it was luggage. He's planning to  
>> contest it by issuing a credit card dispute.
>
>
> 	The more I think about this, the more I think this person  
> encountered a rotten apple of an employee.  Air France has too good  
> a reputation.
>
> 	It would seem to me wise to contact management and frame the  
> report that way:  "I encountered an Air France employee who seems  
> to need some supervision."  And include something like, "Air France  
> is famous in the bicycling world for the care it takes of cyclists  
> and bicycles.  Tarnishing that reputation would cost the company  
> much, much business from this large, well connected group of  
> travelers."   If that doesn't get a positive response, it would be  
> good for the cycling world to know about it.
>
> 							Peter
>
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