Reduced Flight Price

elm

I booked flights to New Zealand in the Emirates ‘sale’ via Netflights (they were marginally cheaper) at the beginning of the month for travel at the beginning of March, but I checked the price of the flights again today and they have gone down by £600 (£300 per passenger)! This is frustrating, as we made sure we booked during the sale period to save money.

Does anyone know if it is possible to get any kind of compensation for this? I suspect not though…

phatbear

its soooo frustrating i filled my car up the other day and the next day it went down 2p a litre, i went back in the shop and insisted they refund the difference, they refused and im now taking them to the small claims court for my money back!!!

phatbear

just kidding of course not you were happy with the price when you paid your money and the contract is sealed then, its the old adage if the price went up would you be happy paying more?

jackieblack

Yes, that happens. It is annoying but it's what happens. Flight prices can go down as well as up.

Best advice is; once you've booked, stop checking the price

Badger_Lady

elm wrote: »

I suspect not though…

Me too.

jackieblack wrote: »

Best advice is; once you've booked, stop checking the price

Sterling advice!:j

balletshoes

jackieblack wrote: »

Yes, that happens. It is annoying but it's what happens. Flight prices can go down as well as up.

Best advice is; once you've booked, stop checking the price

absolutely - book at a price you're happy to pay, then put down your mouse and step away from your pc .

hearts

Happy to pay?????????? Just because you book it doesn't mean your "happy to pay" it just means you have no option but to pay. When you see a Sale you are quite right to think this is the best price that's likely to be available. Robbin bastoords. But it's the same all over, these false sales are everywhere nowadays.

Badger_Lady

hearts wrote: »

Happy to pay?????????? Just because you book it doesn't mean your "happy to pay" it just means you have no option but to pay.

'Course you do. Either pay and get tickets, or don't pay and don't get tickets. Totally optional.

We'd all definitely be happier to pay less, but it's on a scale.

elm

I don’t have much of an option as I am a bridesmaid at a wedding, which also means my dates aren’t flexible. I also wasn’t particularly happy with the price (a flight that cost more than I paid for my car?! Ouch…) but I’d been checking for days during the sale period and it hadn’t changed, so I had to go for it. I’d waited nearly a year for this sale so I could buy the flights at a cheaper price, but I suspect it possibly would have been cheaper buying them prior to this!

I didn’t actively go and check the flight price, but I still had a fare alert set up which I hadn’t got round to unsubscribing from and noticed that the fare had dropped considerably. I posted my gripe to see if anyone had taken a chance and had tried their luck at getting any money back. I guess there’s no harm in trying, although it is 10p a minute to call Netflights! I do realise it’s highly unlikely I’ll get anywhere though.

I see that there is another post regarding this subject from last week, but the poster is flying to Australia. It sounds like Emirates’ sale wasn’t much of a sale. Oh well, such is life…

photome

hearts wrote: »

Happy to pay?????????? Just because you book it doesn't mean your "happy to pay" it just means you have no option but to pay. When you see a Sale you are quite right to think this is the best price that's likely to be available. Robbin bastoords. But it's the same all over, these false sales are everywhere nowadays.

You definitely have an option as badger lady says.

OP were you checking prices leading up to the sale? (you said you had been waiting a year) Did you book when you saw them at their cheapest? If so you should have been happy with that nd stopped looking

In my experience the best time to book is often as soon as the tickets are released, about 11 months in advance of travel

elm

Yes, I did have an option, but I would have let a close friend down on her wedding day. I had checked the flight prices a few times throughout the year, but I was lured by the promise of a sale as you assume that you will save money buying things in a sale. I wasn’t happy with any price, as I mentioned in my previous post, as it’s so bloody expensive! :eek: