How does AC get away with stuff?
May 3, 2012, 1:49 am
#32
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 9
could be
Okay I'm no expert on how AC operates but the dates I looked before the promo showed every departure time coming out to $890, now they're $1069. You are telling me that in two days, all the $890 flights were purchased? When I checked before the promo, I checked all Tuesday to Tuesday flights in October and they were all $890. They are all $1069 now. All these seats were purchased in two days? That doesn't sound right to me at all. Again, I'm no expert, just someone who looks at this logically as an outsider.
May 3, 2012, 5:49 am
#33
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Canada
Programs: *void
Posts: 2,408
Okay I'm no expert on how AC operates but the dates I looked before the promo showed every departure time coming out to $890, now they're $1069. You are telling me that in two days, all the $890 flights were purchased? When I checked before the promo, I checked all Tuesday to Tuesday flights in October and they were all $890. They are all $1069 now. All these seats were purchased in two days? That doesn't sound right to me at all. Again, I'm no expert, just someone who looks at this logically as an outsider.
I think we can all agree that if the cheaper seats are sold before you can get to them during the promo, and thus only higher fares are left for sale, why then is that so VERY often I see the lower fares re-appearing, say a week or 2 later?
Yes, I do believe that there are some legitimate savings when these promo codes appear.
Yes, I do understand that the cheaper fares are quickly scooped up during the sales.
No, I do not believe that so many of these cheaper fares on so many different flights, but within a similar travel window, can be so quickly sold out when I have been monitoring them so ardently before/after the promo codes are announced.
No, I do not understand then, why so many cheaper fares then reappear AFTER the promo codes are finished. Cancellations? Sure, but across all so many flights that I'd been monitoring?
So, tommy, if you're still here, have you noticed the cheaper fares returned after the promo has ended (give it a week or 2 or 3).
Sham me once, shame on you, AC. Sham me twice? Shame on ME.
May 3, 2012, 7:16 am
#34
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: YYZ, Canada
Posts: 120
I completely forgot about this. Just checked same details and now it costs $1177. Unfortunately what really adds to the costs are the UK fees - $161. I though I read they have already gone up this year or are going up later this year. LHR is an expensive airport to deal with it seems.