Air New Zealand fare hike, then price drop
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at 11:52 by Routemaster.
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RoutemasterParticipantHave I any other redress, aside from feeling ever so slightly ripped off?
Return leg LAX-LHR was c.£1000, then £1200 so I booked, fearing further rises.Yes, a day later, it went back down to c. £1000 ! RM
30 Sep 2015
at 17:29
AMcWhirterParticipantSadly the answer is no. Most air tickets are priced and sold like any other consumer product.
30 Sep 2015
at 18:22
ARJ100Participantcould this help?
http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/online-price-promise1 Oct 2015
at 10:21
RoutemasterParticipantThanks for that, omanair, but it would only work on the day of purchase.
‘Caveat aviator’, I suppose.I’ll try to consume the difference in value while on board ! RM
2 Oct 2015
at 13:21
IanFromHKGParticipantI echo MrDarwin’s advice – something I was alerted to by another poster on this forum some months ago and which has saved me a lot of money. It isn’t just airlines – hotels, car hire companies and consolidators track the patterns of searches you make, and if they see you repeating searches they start jacking up the prices to trick you into thinking that you need to book immediately before the price rises further. I had a case in point yesterday – I was looking at car hire in London and found a superb deal through travelsupermarket.com – less than ten pounds a day. A couple of searches later (I was comparing with other sites and had to refresh) it had gone up by 20 per cent. I tried again – same thing. I cleared my cache/history/cookies and ran the search one more time, and hey presto got the original cheaper price! It has become quite routine for the Memsahib and I now to either do comparison searches on different devices ad/or to clear the above before making a final booking.
12 Oct 2015
at 10:20
AnthonyDunnParticipant@MrDarwin – 02/10/2015 17:22 BST
@IanFromHKG – 12/10/2015 11:20 BSTThanks for the tip. I will now clear my cache prior to any bookings in future.
12 Oct 2015
at 11:25
RoutemasterParticipantLikewise, thanks for the tips, everyone.
(needless to say, appealing to the airline’s better nature was
a waste of time !)
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