Originally Posted by
l'etoile
There was the UA deal to CDG ... will look for the link
adding: can't find the original thread, but it was $23 and change from SFO and possibly other cities.
I think it is
this thread. As you dip into it, the price dips from the $85 in the title to various numbers in the $20s.
The WSJ ran an article saying that UA was not going to honor the fare:
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/...9544528745.htm
United Site Quotes Super-Low Fares,
Balks at Honoring the Ticket Prices
By JANE COSTELLO
WSJ.COM
United spokesman Chris Brathwaite says the airline won't honor any tickets sold at those prices. "Anyone who thought they could fly from L.A. to Paris for $27 should have known better," Mr. Brathwaite says.
KevinB was
interviewed by Extra. In the end, UA honored the fare.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:24 p.m. ET
CHICAGO (AP) -- Fantasy fares of as little as $25 round-trip to Europe turned out to be a dream come true, after all, for dozens of customers of United Airlines.
Reversing course, United said Monday it would honor the 143 tickets sold on its Web site during a 55-minute period on Jan. 31 when flights for international destinations were offered for next to nothing.
The world's largest carrier blamed a computer error and said last week that anyone who spotted the near-giveaway fares at
www.ual.com should have known that the prices -- $24.98 for San Francisco to Paris, for example, with similar deals for flights to Hong Kong and other cities -- were too good to be true.