Tricky phrase from lufthansa
Greetings to everyone! I really hope there is someone who can help me. It should cost nothing enormous to you, who speaks english from your childhood and at the same time your input might give me a little calmness. I've failed in understanding the simple phrase:
"You can reserve the baby cots up to 48 hours before flight departure. "
Does it mean that if I want to reserve this cot I will need to take care of it in advance, let's say 56 hours before departue
Or otherwise
56 hours before departure will be to early and I will need to contact Service center any time between 48 hours prior departure and departure itself?
Thank you in advance!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Thank you Guys!
Mr Bluebottle, your explanation is exceptional. I'm totally following you. The only one is that this cot, it is something that lufthansa can provide me for my convinience during the flight, so I don't expect a crew to put any drugs or something like that:)
The strange thing with their site is that when I went to the Russian version of the page with this phrase the passage which contained it did't have it anymore. So this wasn't translated
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It means that if you want to reserve a cot you must contact then more than 48hrs before departure. So you need to contact them in advance of the 48th hour.
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"You can reserve the baby cots up to 48 hours before flight departure. " ??
I'm [almost]* sure it means your first .....I want to reserve this cot I will need to take care of it in advance, let's say 56 hours .... rather than your second interpretation. Your second means you could reserve 10 seconds before departure, and that is out of the question, because of the risk of not searching for cot bombs, cot drugs etc. Explicitly
Suppose departure is at 0 hours. Then you can reserve cots for the following times:
... -56, -55, -54, .... -50, -49, -48 hours
You cannot reserve cots for -47, -46, -45, ...-2, -1, 0 (=plane departs), 1, 2, 3, 4 ... hours.
*but not completely certain.
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I won't be able to be so precise in calling exactly before 48 hours and 00 minutes (lets say this is time X) before departure. I hoped the phrase reveals if I should call before or after time X :) Does it?
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