What the flight box passes on before you reserve a week

This page sets out what the flight box passes on and what it keeps. Not one price in this shelf has ever held a seat on a plane, so the box hands that question to a company that sells them. Six entries travel and no more; the reckoning against the nine weeks is done where you stand and goes nowhere.

Reserve one of these weeksSend the form whenever it suits: it never shuts. Someone here replies inside one working day, and no charge arises at this end.

Six entries, and not a seventh

What leaves the page is exactly this: the airport you fly from, the airport you fly to, the day out, the day back where you give one, the cabin, and how many people in each of three age brackets. Your name does not go. Nor does an electronic mail address, a telephone number, or anything you may have typed into the request form lower down. The box has no field for any of it and quietly adds none.

Whose figures come back

They belong to a booking company, which is a different firm from this one and it is met by way of a host to which this domain hands one of its own names. Whatever it shows is true of its own systems at the second it is shown, and this page neither stores those figures nor repeats them afterwards. A seat it holds sits in its records and in no file of ours.

Where a card is called for it is typed over there. This website carries no field capable of accepting card digits and is not going to grow one. The ticket comes under that company's conditions and under nothing written on these pages. If you go on to buy, what it settles with this office was agreed well before your visit and is taken out of its own side, so your total is the same either way.

No price here has ever held a seat

Worth stating flatly on a page about a flight box, because a box like this could be read as a change of trade. It is not one. Every week on this shelf is priced on the ground and printed twice, best against worst, and the crossing to reach it has never been inside either figure. Nobody here contracts with an airline or a shipping line and nobody here issues a ticket. The box is here because the question is real and pointing at a company that answers it beats saying nothing.

The reckoning that stays in your browser

The line under the fields is worked out on your own machine and is transmitted nowhere. Give it two dates and it counts the nights between them, then reports how many of the nine weeks fit inside that count of nights and how far their spreads run, from narrow to very wide.

Nights and spreads come out of the catalogue file that orders the index, taken once while the pages are being made. Neither the box nor any page can therefore quote a week differently from the other. None of it is a quotation, and the flight is in none of it.

Why a far date is refused

The day fields turn down anything already behind us and anything roughly eleven months out. That edge is where the schedules the booking company can see come to an end, so past it there is nothing for a search to reach. It would answer empty, and an empty answer on a page like this one reads as a fault rather than as an empty calendar. A plain refusal is the more truthful of the two.

The request form is the other direction

Lower down the page sits a form that travels in the opposite direction. Its destination is this website, no other, and the booking company is never shown a word of what goes into it; it is there so somebody at this office can write back to you about a week. The two are sealed off from one another. What you type in the box is invisible to the form, and what you type in the form is invisible to the box.