Originally Posted by
wayoutwest
NZ Trout - answer is yes. If you are going to put out a special you are required to have a reasonable amount of the special available, as you will see from Brenrox, within hours of it coming out some places had nothing.
Yes, that's fair enough.
Other point is why other sites can do it for between $250 odd and $650 odd when NZ cannot.
I guess that's a downfall for NZ having gone with some heavy customisation on their web booking engines. They're obviously following a different set of rules to the third party booking engines, which can only follow the published fare rules.
Realise this does not affect the majority of folks here, but I still ask why do they do it and why do they get away with it. The Comcom is not particularly helpful either, and like I said must be someone here from NZ who is willing to front up and explain.
I wouldn't think it's a Comcom issue unless they are knowingly and repeatedly putting out specials that can't possibly be booked. Keep on with NZ if there is genuinely a consistent issue with lack of cheaply combinable inventory. Talk personally to someone higher up the chain if you're not getting a sensible answer from the lower ranks.