Aeroplan: “Our web site is pretty. It doesn’t work, but it’s pretty!”

This has been going on for more than a week now. You get right to the end of the booking process then it crashes. I’m on hold with their “web site assistance centre.”

What do YOU think they’ll say?

  1. “It’s because you’re using a Mac.”
  2. “We don’t support Firefox.”
  3. “I’m not sure. Did you try it again?”

I’ll have the results later.

Comments

7 Responses to “Aeroplan: “Our web site is pretty. It doesn’t work, but it’s pretty!””

  1. wader on April 30th, 2008 12:28 pm

    good luck. anything Air Canada touches turns to gold.

  2. Karen on April 30th, 2008 12:34 pm

    I vote for #3.

    Aeroplan’s booking site is horrid! I just booked an Aeroplan flight to Halifax for August and as much as I hated to do it, I had to bite the bullet and pay their stupid $35 phone booking fee because the phone agents could find flights for me that were not available on the website.

  3. James C on April 30th, 2008 10:30 pm

    #3 it will be. Followed by 1 then 2 depending on the agent. Sadly nothing will be logged and they will never clean up their site. As with any problems with websites I’ve ever reported.

  4. Derek K. Miller on April 30th, 2008 10:38 pm

    Early in 2007 our travel agent tried to book me a flight through Air Canada’s site. It didn’t work, but AC ended up charging my credit card for the flight anyway — three times!

    My agent got the charges reversed, but we ended up on another airline.

    Good to see they’ve fixed those problems in the past year. Ahem.

  5. Mark on May 1st, 2008 4:58 am

    Tod. I’m disappointed that you forgot the most often used tech support recommendation… “reboot your computer”.

  6. Raul on May 6th, 2008 11:55 pm

    Tod,

    I vote for reason # 2 - “You’re using FireFox”. I use FireFox and I love it. But the truth is, it gets a bit unstable. Or is it Microsoft Windows XP?

  7. Air Canada online web booking: The Final Chapter : Tod Maffin on May 16th, 2008 11:54 am

    […] up on my post about the obscure error message I kept getting on the Aeroplan […]

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