Cebu Pacific SCAM? You decide!

[mhaedonald]

anyway atleast i know now which is good airport..I always flight in either terminal 1 or terminal 2 they doing their work good and good service..But wont ever flight in terminal 3 anymore..its my first and last flight in that airport/airlines.the terminal 1 and 2 always give last call for boarding and letting the people to go in front of line if its their boarding time but in terminal 3 didnt even have a last call..they only say boarding and the plane left!The immigration are bad as well even ur turn they will put u in the end of the line and close their booths and little immigration working and will result in missed ur flight/buying again ticket as they take too long coz they are too busy to talk to in their phones and even put in front of line the other who is not yet boarding..

[maria_and_matt]

anyway atleast i know now which is good airport..I always flight in either terminal 1 or terminal 2 they doing their work good and good service..But wont ever flight in terminal 3 anymore..its my first and last flight in that airport/airlines.the terminal 1 and 2 always give last call for boarding and letting the people to go in front of line if its their boarding time but in terminal 3 didnt even have a last call..they only say boarding and the plane left!The immigration are bad as well even ur turn they will put u in the end of the line and close their booths and little immigration working and will result in missed ur flight/buying again ticket as they take too long coz they are too busy to talk to in their phones and even put in front of line the other who is not yet boarding..

you should have told them what time your flight was, and told them to get a move on.. i would have

[Dedworth]

you should have told them what time your flight was, and told them to get a move on.. i would have

Yes - if you don't ask you don't get but I doubt if it would have worked as mhaedonald and fellow passengers were in the hands of obstinate, mindless bureaucrats and jobs worth's

[Arthur Little]

... mhaedonald and fellow passengers were in the hands of obstinate, mindless bureaucrats and jobs worth's

Tell me about it! I haven't mentioned this until now ... but reading Mhae's graphic account of her nightmarish experience has just reminded me of my OWN "brush with bureaucracy gone mad" on returning from a belated honeymoon trip to Paris last month.

The incident occurred as my wife and I were about to join the midday Northbound Express [or so we thought!] at London's Kings X Rail Terminal. Two queues had formed and - as it so-happened - WE'D inadvertently picked the wrong one. I duly handed over my ticket for inspection ... only to be asked for my Senior Rail Card - which, naturally enough, I couldn't produce on demand since it had been stowed away in another wallet that was inside the suitcase I'd packed a few hours earlier. Despite my attempts to reason with the guy that I couldn't have purchased the ticket at the concessionary rate in the first place had I NOT had the Card, the awkward persisted in his argument that I wouldn't be allowed to board the train WITHOUT it - adding that I'd have to make my way to Customer Services (on another platform) notwithstanding the fact that we were laden with two sets of luggage, and it would've taken ages to open up and rummage through my case to retrieve the other wallet, as the only obvious alternative. All this ... with about five minutes to spare before the train was due to leave!

As I stood there remonstrating with this jumped-up jackass, I hadn't seen my wife dashing off hurriedly in search of the Customer Services kiosk (or whatever it was) ... I'D been too to have even noticed she was no longer there! It was only when I saw her clutching a small rectangular card - which she gave to the ticket inspector - that I realised she'd been gone at all.

That done, it was a case of "... 'Ave a pleasant journey, Ma'am ... Sir ...!" Grrr, cheeky sod!

Not Cebu Pacific, nor for that matter, a scam - and, perhaps even to some extent, - but it shows that these "over-zealous" types are everywhere!!!