Originally Posted by
as219
Do you not want to take the trip?
I got in on this at the start (major kudos to soy!), booking slightly after 9:45am EST. ORD-AKL-SYD on NZ, returning a week later SYD-SFO-ORD on UA. I really would have preferred to build in an AKL stopover -- that's where we want to go -- but I couldn't figure this out on the fly and didn't want to miss out. For some reason the SFO-ORD leg booked into econ, which isn't great either, but no big deal. Even if we have to pay to get to ORD, and backtrack SYD-AKL-SYD flights, those seem like minor considerations given the ULH biz flights. After missing out on the UA 'C for the price of Y' error, I didn't think I'd ever again see fares like this. That said, I'm going to wait to see what NZ does here. My tickets are confirmed, with UA and NZ PNL's, and I have seats. I would think at this point they're not going to cancel us, but who knows?
I absolutely want this trip, it's confirmed and ticketed with AKL stopover for 1 week. Let's see how this goes within next 24 hours.
My only concern is refund from the airlines, if it takes months like what AZ did with their FNR-DUS deal then I'll get my money back first before NZ takes control of this. I have until 11:59pm PST Jan 4th to do so.
Originally Posted by
Brituchenite
I got in on the last big Air New Zealand 'deal' in Sept 2017. It took nearly two weeks for everyone to be canceled. Air NZ is not friendly in honoring these types of fares.
I have no problem with NZ not honoring, it's the amount of time it takes for them to cancel and refund, and I don't want too many uncertainties. There's also opportunity costs involved. If your planned trip is set and it prevents you from getting other deals during the same period(s).