So, I’m booking my flights to the IDQ 2008 conference in San Antonio. I’m flying with Continental.
As with most airlines I have to provide a contact telephone number for them to contact me before, during or after travel.Their website allows me to select the country that my phone number is in. My phone number is an Irish one (my cell phone drinks, fights and bleaches its hair to pretend to be Alexander the Great, just like Colin Farrell.)
So I selected my country and enter my phone number (087-63xxxxx).Continental present this back to me as 01108763xxxxx. So I go again, putting in 00353, +353 and all other variants I can think of.
Continental comes back to me with variants on a 011-[long string of garbage] telephone number.
So. What happens when Continental try to ring me when I’m away? Why have they wasted my time submitting (and resubmitting) this information over and over again when they simply bugger it up on me? Why, regardless of what country I select do Continental want me to live in America?I think I’ll ring some of the variants that Continental spat out to me and see who answers….
Too funny. Sounds like they want your phone to get dual citizenship.
Have you tried changing your country on the website. Usually USA is the defaut but you can specify where you are
@Keith,
The country selection for my address is OK. They have a seperate country selector for telephone numbers that seems to be as functional as a chocolate fireguard or a waterproof teabag.
@Beth – I wonder if having dual citizenship for my phone would mean I wouldn’t have to pay roaming charges? When I spoke at a Data Quality conference in Sydney a few years back I came home with a €400+ phone bill because my provider hadn’t properly set up my roaming options for Australia. Good news was that I was immediately eligible for an upgraded handset.