is normal for Thomas Cook prices to change within the hour?

Saint_Chris

have you tried clearing your cookies after each search your doing.

Ryanair are very clever at this, i searched for flights for tenerife and they was £64 i checked 2 days later and again they was still £64, i decided to book the next day and hey presto the flight had gone up to £94, i remember hearing that travel companies use cookies to track your search, so i deleted them, and hey presto when i searched again the price was back to £64..............

mutley74

Saint_Chris wrote: »

have you tried clearing your cookies after each search your doing.

Ryanair are very clever at this, i searched for flights for tenerife and they was £64 i checked 2 days later and again they was still £64, i decided to book the next day and hey presto the flight had gone up to £94, i remember hearing that travel companies use cookies to track your search, so i deleted them, and hey presto when i searched again the price was back to £64..............

yup tried this...as an earlier poster also recommended this..no luck:(

tamiami

The less seats available the higher the price goes.

Also, there isn't a man who sits there changing the prices!! It is all computer generated on a supply and demand basis!!

claire16c

£20pp late booking fee? Ive heard it all now, no wonder people dont use travel agents much nowadays.

callum9999

Saint_Chris wrote: »

have you tried clearing your cookies after each search your doing.

Ryanair are very clever at this, i searched for flights for tenerife and they was £64 i checked 2 days later and again they was still £64, i decided to book the next day and hey presto the flight had gone up to £94, i remember hearing that travel companies use cookies to track your search, so i deleted them, and hey presto when i searched again the price was back to £64..............

I'm not convinced this actually happens, no-one has actually been able to vaguely prove it yet - and I'm sure if an airline the size of Ryanair was doing this someone would have been able to prove it by now. (As in a journalist etc. - not someone who just happened to have the price rise on one occasion)

More likely you are just being caught out by their aggressive yield management systems that are constantly fiddling the prices depending on demand. And I assume it temporarily reserves the price for you (otherwise if someone else booking at the same time gets there just before you it will suddenly jump in price half way through the checkout), which if it's doing for several people at once could easily explain these quirks.

jpsartre

callum9999 wrote: »

I'm not convinced this actually happens, no-one has actually been able to vaguely prove it yet - and I'm sure if an airline the size of Ryanair was doing this someone would have been able to prove it by now. (As in a journalist etc. - not someone who just happened to have the price rise on one occasion)

And aside from that, I've never understood the logic behind the theory. A passenger is refusing the purchase a ticket for a certain price so we'll entice him by *increasing* it?

rocking69

claire16c wrote: »

£20pp late booking fee? Ive heard it all now, no wonder people dont use travel agents much nowadays.

The 20GBP booking fee is applied by Thomas Cook, not the travel agent.

stephb34

claire16c wrote: »

£20pp late booking fee? Ive heard it all now, no wonder people dont use travel agents much nowadays.

Think the official statistics are that sales in travel agents are actually up, not down.

stephb34

rocking69 wrote: »

The 20GBP booking fee is applied by Thomas Cook, not the travel agent.

As in Thomas cook the Tour operator not thomas cook the shop. All package tour operators charge a late booking fee/ ticket on departure charge, which stems from the days of when you used to pick your tickets up at the airport, but yes nowadays when they're Etickets which are printed off there and then its a bit naughty.

mutley74

stephb34 wrote: »

As in Thomas cook the Tour operator not thomas cook the shop. All package tour operators charge a late booking fee/ ticket on departure charge, which stems from the days of when you used to pick your tickets up at the airport, but yes nowadays when they're Etickets which are printed off there and then its a bit naughty.

thanks for your tips, i spoked to my local TC agent instore and they managed to honour a price from last week plus not charge me any CC fee! so actually got a better deal than Online (even though online price is a bit lower now!)

Lesson - if you see a good deal online - get the TC agent to match it and save it if you not booking the same day!