Originally Posted by
Anabel8675
Thanks very much everyone for the excellent leads! Your advice gives us a lot of different options and I really appreciate it.
By the way, I did find some excellent fares on US Air (CLE-PHL-CDG) over the weekend. $750 including taxes and fees on their Web site. I'm still trying to see what I can work out for an upgrade or on a carrier such as OpenSkies or L'avion though. I wish OS/L'avion would offer the 1,000 deal they had previously--they are at $1,500 right now for PRE+. And then I just read today that they aren't on the best ground financially, but who is in the ariline industry.
Does anyone know what happens if you buy an airline ticket super early and then the airline happens to go out of business? I'm assuming you are just out the money? Or are you protected if you buy on certain credit cards? thanks.
I flew many times on l'Avion's $1,000 round-trip; it was occasionally cheaper than the least expensive coach fare on any other airline.
I flew the entire TWA Fan 1 family to Paris on this fare last July. The next least expensive business class ticket was over three times as expensive.
As far as OpenSkies (designated as EC) being in financial difficulty, please remember that EC is a subsidiary of British Airways, so the pockets are very deep (I wouldn't worry about EC going out of business). And l'Avion is now owned by EC, therefore by BA.