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Florida flights
eyeamthu1
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Hi - quick question --
I'm trying to book some flights to Florida in August. There are a few options, but some British Airways flight prices have confused me...
Booking via British Airways direct appears to come up with about £650rtn per person. However, if I search thru Skyscanner, the exact same BA flights are coming up for about £430rtn per person - these are available when I click through to a third party website, such as bravofly or gotogate.
Seems too good to be true that these are over £200 cheaper?? What's the catch? Is there any problem with booking via these third parties?
There seem to be a few other examples where booking via these third parties come in at £100+ cheaper. I'm suspicious. Are things like baggage not included or something?
I'm trying to book some flights to Florida in August. There are a few options, but some British Airways flight prices have confused me...
Booking via British Airways direct appears to come up with about £650rtn per person. However, if I search thru Skyscanner, the exact same BA flights are coming up for about £430rtn per person - these are available when I click through to a third party website, such as bravofly or gotogate.
Seems too good to be true that these are over £200 cheaper?? What's the catch? Is there any problem with booking via these third parties?
There seem to be a few other examples where booking via these third parties come in at £100+ cheaper. I'm suspicious. Are things like baggage not included or something?
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response to duplicate post
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=67371586&postcount=138
it is likely these cheaper flights do not exist...often referred to as "bait and switch"...you will end up paying the same if not more than the airline direct price0 -
Many thanks for this - thought it sounded too good to be true. I'll book direct with the airline.
(Sorry for duplicate post, wasn't sure where best to post.)0 -
Are they direct flights ? They sound very cheap. We booked our flights to Orlando 12 months in advance for 2014 and we paid £800 each with Virgin, we couldn't get cheaper flights in August.0
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BA's only direct flights are from Gatwick & for next August are in the region of £10000
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Looked at Bravofly before, they never have the flights at the advertised price online, they then ask you to call them & the price rockets, surprise surprise, useless, never had any problems with flight/holiday Genie though, have had a few transatlantic bargains from them0
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Florida in August you say ?
Very hot and very humid I say.
Good luck.;)0
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