ttj - Tom Jones

The last 5 easyjet flights I've been on from Innsbruck have been delayed.  The easyjet flight out from Innsbruck is always the plane that's just arrived.  The airport doesn't have much traffic, so are probably flexible on slots.  So I suspect easyjet are playing a game, perhaps involving saving a marginal amount of airport fees on each flight, by scheduling for unrealistic turnarounds, and systematically messing their customers around, on every flight out of Innsbruck, in the process.   The departure boards might not work at Guernsey, but at least the flight left on time.   And at checkin, the checkin person called over a colleague and asked them how to handle a "high risk booking".  These three words were in English, the rest in German.  This might explain the increasingly idiotic questionning every time I check in to fly out of Innsbruck, things along the lines of "going home are you" (kind of, well, no -- I was resident in Austria atthe time). ...

After previously failing to contact Barclays about a housy (CHAPS) payment [0], I realised the too-high-or-too-low-ness was not the only generic thing about the error message.  The contact number was also generic.  Using a so-called "premier" phone number got thru in reasonable time and out of hours, and resulted in confirmation that I must visit a UK branch to make a CHAPS payment.  For reference, the limits are 50k fiatz(2022) for online banking, and 15k fiatz(2022) for telephone banking. [0] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2022/08/barclays-uncontactable.html > Not being in the UK at the time, this then required flying.  I contacted the private flight broker I'd used for INN, but they said they had nothing.   Easyjet has a service out of tiny Innsbruck several days a week.  Of course, Easyjet have failed to sell me a ticket every time I've tried to buy one recently [1] [2] [3] , but maybe I could create a new account (again) or something....