So I booked a trip from San Francisco to Christchurch during this Christmas break. While I was at the airport for the first leg of the journey, Alaska had a 3 hour delay (AS3435) (due to low visibility) and given that my connecting flight only had a 3h buffer, there was absolutely no way for me to make the second international flight. So I went to Alaska's service desk and they told me they couldn't do anything because the travel agent booked this flight and they couldn't change me to another flight. Naturally I called the travel agent and they kept transferring me to the flight modification department where there was no one answering. On the phone they keep saying that I was first in line but no one would answer. When I tried to call another department, someone would pick up and say the same thing. I got so angry that I said to one of guys on the phone that I will not hang up until someone from that department speaks to me right now. They then said "I will have them call you back" Obviously no one did. I also submitted a call back and you guess it right, no one called. Over and Over again, I called and got sent to the blackhole 8 times. It was clear that they wanted to offload the responsibility to the airline and make them pay for my flight change or something. Because when I finally got to LAX for my next flight that I was so destined to miss, they claimed that they tried to call me (while I was in the air flying to LA), what a convenient time to call? When I finally got to LAX, I had exactly 15 minutes before the departure time of my connecting flight (NZ3), I ran as fast as I could to the gate, only to watch the plane door get shut in my face. I panicked and went to the next gate which was another flight (NZ5) to Auckland and begged the staff there to let me board. Obviously it didn't work. Finally, I was booked on another flight (Qantas flight via Sydney QF12 and QF 3) by Alaska at LAX after and hour of yelling and negotiating. I finally got to my destination after 37 hours of traveling. To top this up, Qantas lost my luggage for the entirety of my trip in New Zealand. I was traveling without luggage for 10 days! But the moral of the story is that one should never do business with OVAGO!