Here is how you can take advantage of a temporary digital glitch known as a mistake fare.
Christmas morning started off rather uneventfully for Paul Jebara. In 2014, the New York-based travel writer was scanning flight fares online in the hopes of stumbling across some bargain beckoning him to a part of the globe he had yet to explore. Nothing out of the ordinary, given his chosen line of work. After landing on the Etihad Airways site, however, he was about to receive the holiday gift of a lifetime.
Frequent flier Zach Groth found his four-leaf clover simply by clicking through to the Delta website from a Google Flights search. In 2017, airfare from his native Indianapolis to New York was listed at a not-so-affordable rate of $450, which he was prepared to pay. But when he followed the link to the airline website, it was listed at $99.
Going also has systems in place to monitor industry pricing and automatically alert subscribers to any glitches. This year alone, the team has stumbled upon round-trip flights between New York and Paris for $230 and even a there-and-back across the Pacific from Seattle to Tokyo for a paltry sum of $316.
“Some airlines will not honour fares that were priced unbelievably low and should not have been booked due to common sense,” Laura Lindsay, Skyscanner’s global travel trends expert, explained in an email. “It’s also possible that flights with error fares will be cancelled entirely. In these cases, airlines will typically give you your money back, so there is no risk of losing it.
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