emirates still not very good at selling tickets
In my previous article "emirates unable to sell tickets" [0], I documented how Emirates is implementing industry best practice, by have a ticket-sale-like web process which ends in an error page instead of a ticket sale. [0] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2024/01/erimates-unable-to-sell-tickets.html > In the end, I got a confirmation email for a flight booking from them, and the funds are pending on my credit card. So the sale did go thru. On average, this is worse than the sale failing. I could have gone straight from their error page to trying to book with another airline, and ended up with two bookings. Or changed my plans altogether, and had a booking to cancel. The email could easily have not arrived, because that's what email does. In this case, it's worked out okay. So I went to book the journey back. This time, after several petty errors, their web page hung indefinitely on "Saving your seat selection". As usual, a lot mor...