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A quick announcement before we get started with this episode, and this one is a special announcement for our Japanese listeners, in particular the Tokyoites out there.
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Is that a word?
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Tokyoites?
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I'm not sure, but if you live in Tokyo, this is an announcement for you because we are going to have a Q -Lips meetup in Tokyo on Tuesday,
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February the 10th.
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Tuesday, February the 10th.
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And I would love to meet up with any Q -Lips listeners.
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It doesn't matter if you are just a casual listener or
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if you are a hardcore Q -Lips fanatic and are a Q -Lips member.
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It's open to everybody.
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And guys, the link for the details is going to be in the description for this episode.
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And to be honest, I haven't decided on a venue yet.
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If you are a listener in Tokyo
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and think you could help me out planning a little bit
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and finding a good venue to host maybe 10 to 15 people then
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that would be awesome and yeah we'll have a nice casual
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and fun meet up with some Q -Lips listeners in Tokyo on February the 10th
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so check out the link in the description
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and yeah let's do it see you in Tokyo hello
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and welcome to bonus episode number 165 of the Q -Lips English podcast How is it going?
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I hope you're doing well.
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My name's Andrew.
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I'll be your host and your study buddy today for this English language lesson.
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What we do here in the bonus episode series at Q -Lips is I just talk to you
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and I hang out with you and I tell you some stories from my everyday life.
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I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea.
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And I hope by listening to my stories, you will be able to build your English fluency and grow your vocabulary and become a clearer and more confident communicator.
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To accompany this episode, there is an absolutely free interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary.
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They're awesome study resources, and you can get them by following the link in the description.
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Plus, if you're a Qloops member, then you can also get a comprehension quiz.
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Yeah, so Qloops members, make sure to check out that comprehension quiz.
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And I got to say a big welcome and hello to all of the new members who have joined us recently.
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We had just a ton of brand new members sign up at the start of the year.
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So guys, thank you so much for trusting Qloops with your English language education
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and we're going to make a lot of progress this year.
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So it's great to have you aboard.
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Thank you to all the new members out there.
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Okay, so let's get started with this episode, guys.
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And in today's story, I'm going to tell you about my upcoming trip to Canada.
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I'm going back to Canada and you may be wondering, Andrew, why in the world would you go back to Canada in January of all times of the year in January.
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For the same amount of money, essentially, you could travel to beautiful places around the world.
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I could go to Spain.
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I could go to Australia.
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I could go to Bali in Indonesia.
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I could go to Mexico.
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I don't know.
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Beautiful places around the world I could visit for the same amount of money.
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But no, I decided to go to Canada in January.
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Why?
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Well, as I said at the start of the episode.
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I am from Canada and I got to go back home.
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You know, I live away from home, far away from my friends and family.
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And these days with technology, that's not as difficult as it used to be in the past.
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I can FaceTime my family anytime and have a video conversation with them.
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And it makes things not so difficult when I live away from home because of technology.
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However, once a year or twice a year I do like to go back to Canada
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and to see my family and see my friends
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so that's why I'm going back to Canada here in just a little bit.
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So I'm going to tell you about the process of buying my plane ticket
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because it was actually a little bit of an ordeal
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and I've complained about buying plane tickets in the past on Qloops
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so maybe this is just a me issue I don't know
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if anyone else has difficulties buying plane tickets or
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if you find it frustrating as well then let me know in the discussion for this episode
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that we'll have over on our discord server
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but yeah I think this is something that affects everyone who travels is
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that there's always a little bit of frustration with air travel
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and yeah actually the big plane ticket that I needed to buy, to go to Canada from Seoul, to fly from Seoul to Canada.
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Originally, I was thinking in my mind that there was no drama and that it was simple and easy to do.
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But now that I'm speaking here, I just remembered that there was actually a little drama buying that plane ticket.
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thankfully i bought it during a sales period air canada had a sale on
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so i was able to take advantage of the sale and
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and buy my plane ticket for a very very affordable price i have to say
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that you know i go back to canada yearly
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so i know how the plane ticket prices fluctuate from year to year
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and fluctuate it's kind of this bigger high level word that just means change so they change, they fluctuate, they go up and down from year to year.
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And I do have to say that this is
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the cheapest I've bought a plane ticket back to Canada in a long time.
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So I'm thankful for that, for sure.
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However, one thing that is a little bit frustrating is that you got to shop around for a plane ticket.
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Like you get different prices from different websites.
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And you would assume that if I'm flying on Air Canada to go back to Canada, you would assume that if you go to the official Air Canada website,
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that would be the cheapest price, right?
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Like they should be able to sell it for the cheapest price.
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And they did have a good price, but I found it on a different third party travel website for a cheaper price.
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So I was able to get a cheaper price on my airplane ticket through a third party.
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And a third party is what we call a service that kind of acts like the middleman.
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Like they are in the middle of my transaction, my business transaction with Air Canada, right?
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They buy the ticket off Air Canada or get it somehow.
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And then they sell it to me.
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And then I travel with Air Canada.
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So we're bringing in this third party and they were able to offer the ticket at a slightly lower price.
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So I was happy about that.
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And I booked my plane ticket and thought everything was done and dusted, was finished, and I could just not worry about that anymore.
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However, a few hours after I booked my ticket, my wife came running up to me and she's like, Andrew, you've got to cancel your ticket.
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And I was like, what?
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Oh, why?
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Why do I have to cancel my ticket?
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She was able to find actually a quite substantially cheaper ticket through a korean third party reseller
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and they even had some special bonus discounts that
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if you used your korean credit card often in korea here you can get some discounts
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when you make purchases online depending on the card that you use
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and it just so happened that we have the card
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that got a pretty good discount on this plane ticket
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so thankfully i was able to cancel my original ticket it was still in that 24 hour window.
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I'm not sure if this is global or not.
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I'm not sure.
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But here in Korea, when you purchase a plane ticket, legally, you have 24 hours to cancel the ticket with no fee or penalty.
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So I was still within that 24 hour window.
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So I canceled my original ticket and I rebooked it using the Korean third party reseller, ticket reseller or travel service,
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whatever you want to call it.
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And I was able to get a really good price.
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So yeah, I'm happy at the end of the day, no complaints on my behalf, really, except for the fact that you do have to jump through these hoops, right?
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It's not just a simple sit down, go to the Air Canada website, book your ticket finished.
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No, you got to do all the shopping around.
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And depending on the card that you have and the service that you find, the exact same ticket and the exact same seat can really vary a lot.
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So that is a little bit frustrating.
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However, not a big deal.
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Got that ticket for an affordable price.
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Happy about that.
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Great.
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Now, here's where my main complaint is.
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My main complaint.
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My main complaint is that I'm from a small town in Canada called Kelowna.
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It's a city of around 150 ,000 people or something like that.
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It's in a region in the province of British Columbia, my home province called the interior or the Okanagan.
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And it's around four hour drive or a one hour flight from Vancouver.
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So of course, when I fly to Canada, I leave from Seoul, I go to Vancouver.
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And then sometimes I spend time in Vancouver, I do have friends and family there.
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But often I just fly right on to Kelowna.
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That's where my parents live.
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That's where my brother lives and that's where I grew up.
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I consider Kelowna my hometown.
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So in the winter, you don't really want to drive to Kelowna from Vancouver
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because there's a big mountain in between those two cities and driving that mountain pass in the winter can be really dangerous.
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There's lots of snow and ice and yeah, it's just not the safest bet.
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You never know if you're gonna have like really good weather one day.
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You could have great weather on the mountain road, or you could have a blizzard and snow storm, or the road could even be closed down.
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It's just totally unpredictable in the winter because of the weather.
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So instead of taking a bus or driving or anything like that, it's best to fly.
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So I needed to book a plane ticket to go to Kelowna from Vancouver.
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Just like I said, a one hour flight.
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And this is where I got really frustrated with the ticket booking process because, and this is on me, this is kind of my fault.
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Actually, it's pretty much 100 % my fault.
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However, I just went to this airline called WestJet and I booked a ticket with WestJet.
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And I've noticed that WestJet, which is a Canadian airline that services lots of domestic flights in Canada,
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but also some international flights.
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I've actually flown on WestJet from Canada to Korea before.
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I think they've canceled that flight now, but they used to offer that.
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So they do have some international options available, but it's mostly just domestic flights in Canada.
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That's their bread and butter, I think.
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And that's a good idiom to be your bread and butter just means your specialty or your main focus,
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your main skill or talent, something like that.
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When it's your main thing, then it's your bread and butter.
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So WestJet's bread and butter is domestic Canadian flights.
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And yeah, I booked a flight on WestJet to go from Vancouver to Kelowna.
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Now I noticed when I went to WestJet's website
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that they have kind of changed their services over the last year or two since I've flown with them last.
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And it used to be that they had two or maybe three options.
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You could buy maybe just two options.
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Maybe they had like a premium and an economy ticket.
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And I'm not sure what they called it.
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Maybe it was business and economy, or maybe it was first class and economy.
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But I think they just had those two options.
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Maybe they had like business, first class and economy, but they just had those, those kind of very clear options where you could book your ticket.
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And of course, first class or business, you know, these are premium tickets.
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These are more expensive.
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And then you have your economy where people like me sit, okay?
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And that used to be what you would see when booking a ticket through their website.
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However, now they've introduced a lot of complexity.
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And now in the economy, they have all of these different options.
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I believe they had three options just for economy
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and the options are priced differently depending on
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if you're going to check a bag
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or not check a bag check a bag means to store a suitcase
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or to store luggage in the storage compartment of the plane
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underneath right like you can have a carry -on bag
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which is like your little bag that you take with you on the airplane
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or a checked bag that goes in the airplane's storage compartment
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so that pricing is different there's different pricing options depending on
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if you want to be able to cancel your ticket
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or not cancel your ticket or change the details of your ticket
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select your seats if you want some more legroom
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or less legroom like there are all these different options
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and yeah it's a little bit frustrating because
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when you search for your plane ticket the first price I saw was a very affordable price
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and I was like oh this is great however
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when I went to actually get to the stage where I have to book the ticket then
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that price goes up quite a bit once they add in the extras and the tax and everything.
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And yeah, I reckoned, I thought that I probably wouldn't be canceling my ticket.
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So I just went with the no cancellation option, which was just a terrible mistake.
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I don't know why I did that.
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So I booked my ticket, kind of the cheapest option available.
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I didn't want to spend a lot of money on this just one hour flight, I thought, okay, I'm done.
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All of my plane tickets booked.
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However, then I called my parents to tell them about my travel plans and when I was expecting to come in.
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And my dad asked me why I was flying on WestJet.
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He's like, why are you flying WestJet?
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You usually fly at Northern Air.
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Why aren't you flying Northern Air?
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And in that moment, I was like, oh my gosh, I totally forgot about Northern Air.
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There's this other airline that's a real regional carrier.
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It really only operates in the western part of Canada, and they service the north.
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That's their specialty, northern Canada.
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So it's kind of like the northwest part of the country.
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However, they do fly between Vancouver and Kelowna, and I've flown with them a lot in the past,
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but for whatever reason I just totally blanked
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and it didn't cross my mind when I was booking my airline ticket and I forgot about Northern Air.
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so then after i finished talking with my parents i went
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to the northern air website i'm like oh how much how
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much was it like did i really miss out on a good deal
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or something and i checked
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and yeah i really did miss out on a good deal it was like a much more affordable price
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and it included two checked bags with west jet i had to add a checked bag to my ticket
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and it was really expensive just to check a suitcase, like one suitcase.
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And it's not like I'm carrying a ton of stuff.
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I'm only going to Canada for a week.
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So I don't have that many things, but you know, it's always nice when you go back, I bring some little gifts and things back for my family.
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And so I do have to check a bag and yeah, it costs almost like the same amount as the airplane ticket
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costs to check a bag to go on a return ticket on WestJet.
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So just ridiculous, super expensive.
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And I feel like I'm just getting nickeled and dimed.
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Nickeled and dimed is an expression that means like a company
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or a person is trying to extract and get like every little cent
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and dollar they can get out of you just to extract the most amount of money out of you.
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So I really felt like just terrible with west jet
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that i was getting taken advantage of
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and all these fees fees for this fees for
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that however with northern air it's really simple it's like a basic website
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everything is very transparent what you see is what you get there's no extra fees stuff is just included
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and so i really like as a customer that kind of business right so i crunched the numbers I calculated,
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okay, if I cancel my flight with WestJet and I have the, remember, I booked the no cancellation option, right?
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I checked to see if I could cancel my flight.
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And I guess I have to tip my hat to WestJet a little bit here
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and say that I'm thankful that even though I chose the no cancellation option, I was still able to cancel my flight,
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but you don't get a refund.
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You have to pay a cancellation fee.
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And then the refund that you do get isn't money.
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They don't give you money back.
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They give you credit.
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So I did the math.
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I added everything up and yeah, I was really not happy to have to pay the cancellation fee to WestJet.
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However, it was more affordable to fly on Northern Air.
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I also have to say that the plane times were a better time.
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I would spend less time waiting at the airport between my Seoul to Vancouver flight
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and my Vancouver to Kelowna flight with Northern Air,
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something like a three or four hour layover compared to a six plus hour layover with WestJet.
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So the time was better as well.
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So when I took all of these things into consideration, like the way better service and just business practice
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that you get from Northern Air and the better times
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and just the overall impression that I got comparing these two different airlines.
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I was like, I got to cancel WestJet.
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I can't fly with them.
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So I bit the bullet.
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I canceled my flight.
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It really sucks.
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I had to pay that cancellation fee and then I received no refund, just credit.
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So I guess I'll be flying WestJet sometime in the future now that I have credit with them.
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But it was just frustrating.
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And really, I'm the one to blame, right?
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I was the one who totally forgot about Northern Air in the first place.
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I'm glad my dad reminded me about them, because without that, I wouldn't have been able to use their service.
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But yeah, that's on me.
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And that was a little bit of frustration I had booking the ticket going back to Canada.
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However, it's all finished.
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It's all in the past.
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The tickets are booked.
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Everything's good to go.
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And hopefully that was the only little bit of a travel headache that I'll have for this trip.
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Hopefully the rest of it will be smooth sailing.
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In the next bonus episode, I'm actually going to tell you about what I'm looking forward to doing in Canada.
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I've got not a lot of things planned.
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Like most of the time when I go back, I just want to hang out with people.
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I want to see my family.
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I want to see my friends, but there are a few things and activities that I want to do as well.
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And that's going to be the topic of our next bonus episode.
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So you'll have to wait until next week to hear that one.
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But for now, everyone, I just want to say thank you for listening.
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Don't forget to check out the study tools, the transcript, the vocabulary glossary, and the quiz that are available for this episode.
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And also come on over to our discord to hang out and to chat about what you heard today in this episode.
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If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you.
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Plus, there are tons of other different topics that you can talk about on Discord with our awesome community,
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and it's a great way to be active with your English and to practice your English.
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output as well as your input that you get from listening to the podcast
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so guys we'll see you over on the discord please take care
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and i'll catch you in the next episode until then bye

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cancel Verb/ˈkæn.sl̩/ausstreichen, durchstreichen
frustrate Verb/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/frustrieren
cancellation Substantiv/kænsəˈleɪʃən/Aufhebung, Kündigung
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reseller SubstantivWiederverkäufer, Weiterverkäufer
suitcase Substantiv/ˈsutkeɪs/Koffer, Reisetasche
vocabulary Substantiv/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/Wortschatz, Vokabular
quiz Substantiv/kwɪz/Ratespiel, Fragespiel
airplane Substantiv/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/Flugzeug, Flieger
refund Substantiv/ɹɪˈfʌnd/Erstattung, Rückerstattung
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  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: discord /ˈdɪskɔɹd/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, quiz /kwɪz/, refund /ɹɪˈfʌnd/, blizzard /ˈblɪz.ɚd/
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