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Yes, sometimes airlines will actually post the wrong price and if you happen to notice it you can save an incredible amount of money. In this case not only was Hawaii on Sale today, one airline filed many airfares for half the sale price (sounds like they coded one-way on the airfare incorrectly to me $223 rt vs. $445rt) |
But you don’t have to constantly be scanning for these FareCompare.com does this automatically when you sign up for airfare email alerts.
Plan to be flexible, because they can correct their mistakes by removing seats at that price, they can’t change the price on the fly (it will be there at least 2-8 hours).
We posted a separate Hawaii airfare mistake a few weeks back which several people sent me notes saying they bought from Orlando at an unbelievable price.
This particular set of mistakes only lasted 3 hours, so time is usually of the essence.
Mahalo
I looked all da for the Hawaii fare,but could nver find it
Comment by Jeffrey — August 28, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
Comment by Rick Seaney — August 28, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
I received an alert for MSY-HNL ($313), however, I never found the fare show up on Travelocity.
Comment by Jeffrey — August 29, 2007 @ 10:14 am
You didn’t find the fare because the airline in question zeroed out the low fare availability before the fare reached the reservation systems. This means that although the fare was published, they were limiting the number of seats for sale on each flight at that price to exactly zero.
Airlines often use this technique to “cover up” for mistake fares if they catch them in time. In this case, it looked like one-way fares were loaded as round-trip, so that fares were cut in half. Someone must have realized their mistake and had availability pulled so that thousands of seats weren’t sold at half price.
Too bad, I was prepared to book 20 r/t to Maui!
Comment by ATravelGeek — August 30, 2007 @ 7:40 am
Did anyone find the fare from American Airlines from Chicago to HNL? I was sitting in the airport (ORD) when the email was delivered at 10:10am searched online and then had a gate agent look. The fare was not there nor was it there the entire day as I constantly looked to book the fare od $213. I didnt delay, and found nothing.
I would rather see fares that are available and loaded into the system rather than get alerts about fares not loaded and not available. I dont want the frustrations of looking for fares that were never actually unavailable. How does farecompare find unloaded fares and why do we care if they dont become available is what I want stopped from this site.
Comment by lotsofhype — August 30, 2007 @ 9:46 am
I have been reading your info on Hawaii, however, Do you ever give fare alerts on New Zealand & Australia.
Comment by r.donovan — August 30, 2007 @ 10:58 am
On 8/19 I booked a $232 RT airfare on Southwest from Burbank (regional airport near LAX) to Islip (regional airport near JFK) with 1 stop for 50 minutes in LAS going and 1 short stop/no change of planes in LAS on return. It is for travel in late October (wed - wed) and it was listed as an “internet special” I live about 20 minutes from Burbank airport and my sister in NY lives about 20 minutes from Islip airport. Beats the heck out of flying LAX/JFK re fighting traffic there and back on both ends plus plane/security delays!
Comment by Connie — August 30, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
I have noticed that farecompare.com has really taken a toll recently in providing accurate fares…especially out of the Cincinnati area. There are lots of prices but the website has not been functioning up to par at all. I also would prefer to see available published fares instead of non-available published fares.
Comment by daniel — October 4, 2007 @ 1:26 am
Comment by Rick Seaney — October 4, 2007 @ 8:00 am
just fyi if a fare is filed in error if caught it can be
blocked from the airline reservation systems until the next fare filing to correct it
js
Comment by jeff s — April 26, 2008 @ 11:47 am