In Reply to: Only in Indonesia!!! posted by sonny on Thursday, 21. May 2009 at 08:25 Bali Time:
A previous poster said she was able to bargain the price down of her IAT ticket at the Bali Domestic Airport.
My experience last year at Mataram Airport was different but with a similar outcome. An agent hanging around the airport tried to get me to pay him Rp 350,000 for a one way ticket for the following day.
When I approached the IAT Airlines counter and asked the price of a one way ticket in Indonesian, the agent intervened and spoke to the woman behind the counter in the Sasak language. The woman replied that the price was Rp 339,000. I waited until the agent had gone away and asked again. This time the price had miraculously dropped to Rp 309,000 one way!
I presume that I was not paying the agent a commission.