Virgin Atlantic "Sale"

C-miller

I booked flights to Orlando for 7 people in the Virgin Atlantic sale on the 22 April 2014. The same flights are now over £200.00 per person cheaper!

Is it possible to obtain a refund from Virgin for the difference in price? Surely there are laws against this type of practice.

photome

short answer...no

flight prices go up and down on a daily basis

jpsartre

C-miller wrote: »

Surely there are laws against this type of practice.

Why on earth would it be against the law for a company to lower the price on a product?

rustyboy21

Would you pay more, if they put them up by £200? It is all to do with load factors on planes and whether there has been a lot of interest on certain flights. The more people look at a flight the more the chance the flight price will go up. Cheap flights only account for a very small amount of seats on a plane.


Do get sick of seeing this question being asked.

marsman802

Thankfully we're not a communist nation....jeez

duchy

If you bought a shirt in the sales ......liked it- wore it and then two weeks later the price went down in the sales -would you take it back (used) and expect a refund or just say to yourself you should have taken the risk that the shirt would still be available and waited til the sales ?

You were happy with the price when you booked -or you wouldn't have booked it. You could have waited -and your date could have sold out...or the price could have gone up.

There's no law...why would there be ????? LOL There's no law against sales in this country (or any other as far as I know )

Caz3121

The only way I can see you getting anything back is if the tickets you bought are fully refundable in which case you could cancel, get refund, and rebook again
The refundable flights for LON-MCO are £1,715 per person, so if this is what you paid you may be able to do this

budgetflyer

It is a bit dodgy when the non sale price is significantly cheaper than the so called "sale" price so soon after imo.
It just makes the customer feel as if they have been mugged.

PeacefulWaters

budgetflyer wrote: »

It is a bit dodgy when the non sale price is significantly cheaper than the so called "sale" price so soon after imo.

It has been decades since a sale has meant a genuine price reduction on just about anything.

Veg on bogof? When they're in season and there's a glut. £1,000 off a new car? Only when a job lot have rolled off the production line. Cheap flights? Only when they've not been able to shift them at the higher price they'd originally been for sale at. And then if the "sale" price isn't shifting enough they will go cheaper again.

It just makes the customer feel as if they have been mugged.

Perhaps. But there's no point pricing it up again once you've paid for a non-refundable ticket.

blindman

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

It has been decades since a sale has meant a genuine price reduction on just about anything.

Veg on bogof? When they're in season and there's a glut. £1,000 off a new car? Only when a job lot have rolled off the production line. Cheap flights? Only when they've not been able to shift them at the higher price they'd originally been for sale at. And then if the "sale" price isn't shifting enough they will go cheaper again.

Perhaps. But there's no point pricing it up again once you've paid for a non-refundable ticket.

True

But in the USA there are airlines (and cruise CO's) that will guarantee that if the price you pay then goes down they will refund the difference.

Rip off Britain

Doshwaster

budgetflyer wrote: »

It is a bit dodgy when the non sale price is significantly cheaper than the so called "sale" price so soon after imo.
It just makes the customer feel as if they have been mugged.

It just means that after the "sale" there is an even bigger sale to sift the inventory which didn't sell in the original sale.