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Input: Text: airport was correct: tianjin. destination was correct: tianjin to tokyo. but how about the date? i purchased the ticket for the month of june and not july. oh my days... how could i have overlooked that number 6 (june) not being a number 7 (july). beware when buying tickets online.

a bit of background information:
me and 23 other students attended this 2 week course in china where we visit companies and see how they implement information systems and the application's we've learnt in class. the last city we visited was tianjin, and due to certain circumstances the entire group went back to beijing for the last few days, but i remained in tianjin as my flight was in tianjin (everyone else had flights going from beijing). little did i know... 

so here's what happened:

last night i tried to use the l online check-in from the asiana airline website. for some reason it didn't work. alarm bells should've hit me, but it didn't. rather, i assumed that the airline made a mistake by giving me the incorrect code (that happens, right?). i mean, how could i make a mistake?

so this morning as i go to the airport check-in counter i hand them my passport. she scans my passport, and then looks confused. she asks for some documentation, so i hand her the printout of the flight itinerary i so meticulously prepared. she reads it, also not noticing the 6, and then rescans my passport. still confused. she calls her manager. they rescan my passport again, and that's when they realise - the ticket is for june and not july.

stunned. i stare blankly in despair. the world freezes for a moment. i am speechless. i booked the wrong friggin month? but i'm always so careful!

i switch onto damage control, try to compose myself and then ask if i can purchase a ticket. she points me to the direction of the ticket counter. side note: ticket counters for airlines only open 2 hours before one of their flights, and because this was one of the first few flights the ticket counters from other airlines haven't opened yet. 

i approach the desk and explain the ordeal to the lady. she giggles - i guess it is quite funny when you think about it... so she then begins searching for the next available flight to tokyo. with all economy seats booked, she tells me there is only business class left. 5070 rmb (1014 aud). my heart sinks to the floor. 

wanting to compare prices with other airlines, i couldn't. they haven't opened yet. the next one opens roughly around 9:30am. this ticket counter closes at 9:10am. needed to make a decision. should i spend 1014 aud on top of the 384 aud i already spent on that darn unusable ticket? never traveled business class before. but i'm a broke student - who am i kidding...

it is at this point where i want to tell the lecturer about the sh*tstorm i got myself into. but lucky me, my data was freshly used up. 0mb. fortunately, the ticket lady was so kind and helpful that (most likely out of pity) she tethered me internet from her phone. thanks! once connected i eventually got in touch with the lecturer. 

that's when she advises me to contact the man with all the answers, the lifesaver himself, the amazing alex. alex has been our helpful local tour guide for the tianjin leg of the trip. he begins searching for (more reasonably priced) flights. and finds a good alternative: a direct flight costing 2834 rmb (566.80 aud) that departs 4:35pm and arrives tokyo 8:55pm

he books it. he confirms it. it's done.

now, what i'm annoyed about (you bet i'm annoyed, frustrated, embarrassed, exhausted and angry all in one - hey, (group leader) i finally know how you felt for 80% of this trip 😜) what i'm really annoyed about is that, because of all this, there was no need for me to have been separated from the group. beijing may have offered more options because more airlines operated there; i could've have stayed at the nicer hotel that was booked; could have watched federer live on tv (the hotel tv i stayed at didn't show the wimbledon final!) rather than listening to the wimbledon radio (yes that thing called a radio still exists).

but alas, it happened. my 566.80 aud mistake. hey x, y and z - you guys got nothing on me. you're "rip-off" expenses combined don't even match my epic fail on this trip! bahahaha 

566.80 (ticket) + 80 (counterfeit bills) = 646.80 aud

oh. my. days.

TIFU by buying the wrong plane ticket