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Flight Sale Prices?
deltakc
Posts: 15 Forumite
Hiya, just looking for a bit of consumer advice and hope that someone can help.
If a flight company advertises a sale, saying that all the flights are to be reduced for a set period, but before the sale has ended the price of the flights are more than before the sale started, would you consider this wrong?
I had checked the price of flights the day before the sale started but couldn't afford to buy them until two days later when I was paid.
Two days later the seats I wanted were £50 more than before the sale started and when I queried this with the company they sent me a reply stating that the low cost seats were limited and probably sold out.
However, the website stated that all the flights, seats and routes were on sale for a set period and it made no mention of terms and conditions, limited numbers of sale seats or that they were subject to availability. I even checked their calendar view and all the seats were still showing as promotional fares.
Thanks for any opinions.
If a flight company advertises a sale, saying that all the flights are to be reduced for a set period, but before the sale has ended the price of the flights are more than before the sale started, would you consider this wrong?
I had checked the price of flights the day before the sale started but couldn't afford to buy them until two days later when I was paid.
Two days later the seats I wanted were £50 more than before the sale started and when I queried this with the company they sent me a reply stating that the low cost seats were limited and probably sold out.
However, the website stated that all the flights, seats and routes were on sale for a set period and it made no mention of terms and conditions, limited numbers of sale seats or that they were subject to availability. I even checked their calendar view and all the seats were still showing as promotional fares.
Thanks for any opinions.
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Yes I have noticed this as well, their flights go up and down, very annoying.Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.0
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Yes, very annoying, but are they being untruthful or unlawful?0
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The costs of seats on flights always varies with availability.0
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They do, and it's always the popular flights that I need to book and never seem to be able to book them early enough to get the cheaper price _pale_
But I'm still not sure whether they can advertise all seats on sale but then charge more than the before sale price for them while the sale is still on?
If I saw a pair of jeans for £50 and two days later they were in the sale at £75 then I'd definitely be complaining to the shop. However, does the same not apply to flight companies when they have a sale? Especially being told by their customer service department that the sale seats are limited and probably sold out when their website clearly states that all seats on all flights are on sale for the set period.0 -
Currently Thomson Fly are advertising 30% discounts,i booked my flights some 7 months ago and saved £140 THAT IS AFTER THE SO CALLED DISCOUNT0
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