Non Refundable Flight

Chief_Investigator

The problem is, unsuspecting consumers have followed a link from a comparison site. 

Customers do not visit the site starting at the front page, but instead land on credible looking booking page.

What I want to know is - has anyone ever successfully cancelled and received a refund for a so-called booking, after they've been asked to pay an extra amount ?

Chief_Investigator

Secret Flying Club, which is recommended by MSE features a prominent ad section.
Sometimes this ad leads to a very questionable website - jetcost co uk - which in turn features many links to Cheapflyshop.
Jetcost is based in France and have this disclaimer: " Please note that we are not a travel agency and we don't sell tickets. If you have questions regarding a booking, please contact directly the travel agency or airline."

born_again

Apart from a horrible website that just keeps adding more links, so clicking on the info at bottom of page is a nightmare.
We are a team of passionate travellers who provide details to the most incredible flight
deals around the world.

They make no mention of booking anything. So the advice they give is correct, as you book by another party.

Not sure how much clearer it can be.

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Chief_Investigator

Why is Money Saving Expert promoting such a scam-filled site, which requires 2,000 words of disclaimers

eskbanker

Chief_Investigator said:

Why is Money Saving Expert promoting such a scam-filled site, which requires 2,000 words of disclaimers

There are a huge number of middlemen/broker sites reachable directly or indirectly from the MSE cheap flights article, so if there was any desire to filter out those of a certain quality (you describe it as scam-filled but that's essentially a value judgement rather than fact) then that would be a labour of love and potentially leave MSE open to legal action, although to be fair, it might be more appropriate for MSE to make it clearer that cheap flight deals will generally be cheap for a reason....

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Chief_Investigator said:

Why is Money Saving Expert promoting such a scam-filled site, which requires 2,000 words of disclaimers

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