Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
But UA didn't increase the price. It canceled the tickets. However, the message from UA does indicate that it thought the tickets were, in fact, purchased. UA said this (bolding mine):
D
es cancellation equate to a price increase?
If that would be a valid way to cancel tickets, that fare holding clause would be completely worthless because airlines would simply cancel them instead of insisting on a price increase.
So it is obvious, cancellation and offering to rebook on higher price is the same thing as a price increase.
UA says you have purchased the tickets, and also offers to rebook at the "correct" price. Therefore I think they imply that a) I have purchased the ticket and b) they cancelled the ticket because of a erroneous fare, which they now are trying to increase.
It's obvious this falls to the DOT "mistake fare" rule, but just how much DOT will force this rule, we do not know.