Travel headaches again- help!

Travel headaches again- help!

So I got a flight to Damascus. However, Turkish Airlines is booked up and they put me on Qatar Air for now and I am stuck with the headache of finding a cheap way to get from Damascus to Frankfurt and back. Ok, so German holiday charter flights do not fly into Syria. Nor Jordan, nor Lebanon. I could get as far as to/fromAntalya in Turkey, and then spend 700-800km on several buses, trying to cross the Syrian border near Aleppo, round trip. Or I could fly to Tel Aviv. Then I would have to hide the fact I have been to Israel because otherwise I will not be allowed into Syria again. Charter flights from Germany do fly into Tel Aviv, strangely. Rather close to Syria but sounds like a huge, unnecessary hastle. Also not quite safe... Then there is a cheap flight from/to Cyprus. In Cyprus, again, to travel from Northern Cyprus to Southern Cyprus, you have to hide the fact that you have been to Turkey coz they do not like that either. And Cyprus operates no ferry service to either Lebanon nor Syria,. apparenlty, so I would be stuck on this close by island like in a dead end road, unless I fly into Lebanon from there. I also found a 900$ flight to Syria...Or I could dish out over 500$ and fly from Damascus direct to Frankfurt, but that would be double of what I would pay otherwise on German charter flights. ARGHHHH! And I have a new travel agency employee who booked me a flight from Doha to Damascus, correct flight number, but wrote on the itinerary that the flight's destination is Madrid, so I have to go to their office and raise hell about how sloppy they are. Oof.

Mon, May 24, 2010 - 11:32 PM