{"id":247,"date":"2008-01-11T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T04:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-01-11T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T04:40:58","slug":"this-anecdote-is-just-an-excuse-to-post-this-great-photo-from-out-the-window-of-the-silkair-ticket-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"(This anecdote is just an excuse to post this great photo from out the window of the SilkAir ticket counter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/silkair.jpg\" title=\"silkair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/silkair.jpg\" alt=\"silkair.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I  wanted to buy airplane tickets from Langkawi to Singapore but for some reason SilkAir\u2019s website would only sell me tickets traveling the other direction. \u00a0So, I called up, paid the additional phone-reservation fee, and booked three tickets that way. \u00a0They were, though, unable to receive payment over the phone. \u00a0I had to go to the ticket counter, in person, to pay and pick them up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">So, a couple of days ago I visited a nondescript office building downtown (GPS proved useful this time around), traded my ID for a visitor pass and rode a high-speed elevator to the ticket counter on the 25th floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">Their computer didn\u2019t have a way to look up my reservation, so there was a bit of back-and-forth while we figured out where my seats were. \u00a0Then the agent advised me to sit down as this would probably take a few minutes. \u00a0Mercifully they didn\u2019t ask me to provide ID, which would\u2019ve been impossible anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">20 minutes and 2 additional ticket agents later, he waved me back to the counter. \u00a0There I discovered one of the back-up agents manufacturing an official-looking document for me using scissors and glue-stick because, apparently, their printer was broken. \u00a0There was some more shuffling of papers and at last I was presented with the tickets, and a word of advice that I should arrive at the airport 2 hours before the flight leaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">\u201c2 hours in advance for a 1 hour flight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">The agents looked at each other, and nodded sadly. \u00a0\u201cYes &#8212; at that airport they do everything by hand so things are very slow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to buy airplane tickets from Langkawi to Singapore but for some reason SilkAir\u2019s website would only sell me tickets traveling the other direction. \u00a0So, I called up, paid the additional phone-reservation fee, and booked three tickets that way. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}