A few weeks ago I was finally ready to book our family trip to Disney World. I was going to book our flights through West Jet as I've always had a good experience with them, and had picked out our flights and dates and got everything priced out. Then I remembered I got bonus points through PC travel so went online to book the flights there. The flights listed were at least double the price of what I was looking at on the West Jet website. I called and spoke to a travel agent, who was telling me the flights I was looking at on West Jet were unavailable or fully booked despite me being able to select them, and the flight being 7 months away. After providing her flight numbers and departure details she was finally able to find the flights. In total it took over half an hour to get the flights booked over the phone when I could have done it on the West Jet website in about 5 minutes. Not really worth the extra $24 I got for spending over $2,000 on flights. At one point the travel agent started telling me about a trip she took once and about this overweight woman on the flight who didn't really fit in the seats properly. Certainly not the decorum I had ever been taught for any of my professional roles, but whatever, I just wanted to get the tickets booked so I could get off the phone.
Fast forward roughly two weeks later and I get an email from the travel agent but from her Travel Nation email (they are associated with PC Travel) saying 'Hi Shannon, Your client wants to cxld chf tkt.. I have them on my line...' and then a screenshot of their internal system showing the info for a flight to a different destination on a different date than ours. I responded asking why she was sending me this. Her response was 'Because this is your booking...'. I responded again questioning the fact that I was supposedly flying to this other destination in 2 weeks (rather than Florida in 7 months). She then responds by sending me another screenshot of their internal system which showed the full legal names of the family, their telephone number, and their email address. She said it was the booking I had made yesterday. I responded saying I made no bookings and had no idea who any of those people were. She responded with 'Sorry, wrong e-mail address'. Wtf? She had three opportunities to not send me personal and private information of these other customers: 1) when she first went to send the initial email; 2) when I responded asking why she was sending me the flight info; and 3) when I indicated for a second time that I didn't know what she was talking about. I had a party of 5 flying to Florida in 7 months. This was a party of 3, with totally different names, different area code and phone number, and completely different email address, flying to a different state 6 months apart from our date. There is no way this could have been a simple mistake, just plain disregard for people's personal and private information, followed with a woops, wrong email.
Before posting this publicly I wanted to reach out to PC Travel to voice my concerns and see what they would do to rectify it. I filled out an online 'contact us' form explaining the situation and providing my contact info. That was 9 days ago and I have yet to receive a response. Clearly they show very little concern for customer's private information (or their travel agent's general level of professionalism).
Dare I add that I'm still waiting on my points? read more