Flights sorted!

Well, I've just about got my flights sorted now.

Out:
DUB-LHR    04-Feb    1020-1140
LHR-PEK    04-Feb    1640-10:30 05 Feb

Back:
PEK-LHR    14-Apr     1020-1405
LHR-DUB    14-Apr     1550-1705

So return flight shoud just about get me into dublin in time to catch the last train down to waterford, if I should chose to do so. I have them provisionally booked until thursday, so I need to go off and sort out my visa now. I got the letter of welcome from the Beijing office in the fax this morning too, so might head into town early tomorrow to try to get this sorted....

Hmm, the letter says I'm invited for 6 months, but the flights say 2. Wonder will that be an issue?

Got quoted flights for BA, KLM and Lufthansa. BA was the cheapest, so naturally I had to go for that one. At €827 it's nearly €175 cheaper than I had down in my expense request, so that should go down well with the boss.

Lufthansa is ridiculous tho - €5,827.90? I got it quoted on Gohop for €905! I told the girl in AMEX the difference I was seeing and she went off to check was the price she was getting for executive class or something. Returned saying "nope, that's the price for economy class, exec class is nearly double that". I dunno what sort of spectaular service Lufthansa are offering for that price, but for that much money in economy I'd expect the entire economy section to myself! Maybe economy in Lufthansa is like 1st class on any other airline, which would mean that for first class you probably eat endangered animal steaks and get a complementary slave girl or something to keep as a souveneir.