Several folks point above to a $27 International ticket error from United that they honored. I recall reading that some FT'ers booked and were able to use multiple flights on that fare if they wished? I do not know if it has been reported in the United Forum, but in May this year United Airlines discovered they had customers who booked $2,700 International round trip tickets for 25c on the United website.

In view of the debates above, some may be interested to learn United readily honored all those tickets, (and they were not necessarily on United metal), and absorbed the taxes, hence were way LOSING on every ticket they honored. See:

United 25c Ticket Story

On May 17 2001, 23 United customers found they could fly internationally for less than a dollar.

"Those customers purchased tickets on several different carriers for 25 cents," Chris Nardella, spokesperson for United said. "It was a decimal-point problem with the system. The tickets were worth about $2,500 and $2,700. We discovered the problem, and also in that case the company honored the fares."

In the latest glitch, Nardella said the company also gave the customers the option to cancel their greatly reduced fares.

Nardella said there have been no takers so far.

"We're working to fix the problem and to make sure it won't happen again," said spokeswoman Chris Nardella.

Perhaps the bottom line is that alert folks finding these price glitches in relatively small numbers assists the airlines or Hotels tighten and eliminate bugs in their system, as per the last paragraph?

And a final note. WHY with the current Moderator activity here in The Buzz has this thread after a few days not been moved to another Forum? It has nothing whatever to do with "Miles".




[This message has been edited by CoachClass (edited 09-02-2001).]