Originally Posted by
Bullswood
Presumably the above final para by Often1 should read "yet another reason not to deal with third-parties such as Expedia". As a matter of interest, I'd be interested to know why on a simple return booking the OP, or indeed anyone, chooses to use Expedia and takes the risk of such complications if anything goes wrong?
Because it's often considerably cheaper. Isn't that blindingly obvious? Given in my life I've booked many flights with online travel agents, never had a problem, and saved a hell of a lot of money versus booking with the airline, it seems pretty reasonable to me.
Statisticaly only 1% of flights or something will have problems. Using an agent may save you easily more than 10-20% on the ticket. It makes sense. Remember, and apparently it needs explaining in this forum, 100 quid may be the difference between a flight being affordable or not.