FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - [PREM FARE GONE] AA DCA-PEK sub-$450 a/i rt in J
Thread: [PREM FARE GONE] AA DCA-PEK sub-$450 a/i rt in J
View Single Post
Old Mar 18, 2015, 10:05 pm
  #706  
vasantn
FlyerTalk Evangelist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP / LT PLT / 3MM, Marriott LT Gold
Posts: 35,389
Originally Posted by janetdoe
Maybe some states would consider it false advertising or fraud... had you not had AA's guarantee, you would have bought the ticket from a third-party OTA. So AA kept you from buying from a competitor by giving you a written offer that you could purchase within 24 hours, and then reneged on it's offer. That's probably a stretch, but it's the only possible non-DOT recourse I can envision.
No need for OTAs; you could have bought it from AA itself. And many did.
vasantn is offline  
Reply