Broken China

Amongst the daily plop that this week has been bringing, I get a text from Edwin with the Beijing flight details and so as a distraction, I spend time trying to book flights, only to get very frustrated with the Air China flight booking system. You apparently can’t use a UK credit card on a Chinese website, and kept getting an error message.

I actually read the error (rather than start huffing and close the website down) and it was because I was trying to use a UK credit card from a website being accessed on a pc in Malaysia. So what?

SO FUCKING WHAT?

Anyway, I tried fooling it by changing my location to "UK" on the Air China website options, but the Chinese are far too clever for that and they weren't fooled.

In the end I gave up using that site and booked it all through PYO Travel for the same price and none of the hassle.