rjw242

I'm 99% sure the answer to this is "yes", but if the outbound and return flights are on different (non-partner) airlines, charged separately to my credit card (albeit from the same Expedia package) and with different reservation codes, do these rules still apply? Just wanted to check before I spring for a separate plane ticket out of Vegas.

bwiadca

Who said anything about flying in coach? I've got confirmed FC seats for my first RT. When I check my other 4 flights, FC is wide open. Even if I don't get upgraded on all flights, exit row is ok for 4 hours flight

NYC101

I think expedia.ca took note of some of my personal info (birthday, FF#, or something). After multiple attempts with new laptops, new credit cards, new tel#, new emails, I still can't get the voucher to book. or maybe the system is smart enough now to stop the voucher from applying when I click non Canada Billing address... I get the following message:

"The voucher code you entered is not valid. Please check the code and enter it again or select I don't have a voucher to continue"

Is anyone experiencing the same problem?

TAWS

I'm waiting to hear that someone booked a mileage run each day for the whole month of December (30 flights).

30 flights x 4,000 miles = 120,000 base miles

Book out of one of the bonus cities on DL (double EQM/10K bonus RDM), get 300,000 bonus RDM!

120,000 base miles x 2 (elite bonus) = 240,000 RDM + 300,000 bonus RDM = 540,000 RDM plus 240,000 EQM (with rollover)

I wish I had no obligations

HansGolden

Exactly. The only thing they need to (or perhaps can!) charge externally is the flight, so they charge the flight to your CC and then give a refund that is the right amount to leave a difference between the flight and refund equal to the bottom line cost to you after the discount was applied. For instance, if your invoice looked like:

Package booking cost: C$311.14
Taxes & service fees: C$72.87
(SAVE300: -C$300.00)
Package total: C$84.01

And the actual costs to Expedia were:
C$230.45 - Airfare
C$89.02 - Hotel
C$64.54 - Misc items, airport transfers, Broadway tix, etc

Then you would see this on your "View Payment History":
C$230.45 - United charged (Purchase type: Airline fee; Processed by: Other; Action: Submitted)
C$146.44 - Expedia refund (Purchase type: Package; Processed by: Expedia.ca; Action: Refunded)
Bottom line cost to you: C$84.01 (Matches package total from right before checkout completion)

HansGolden

Well, quite possibly not! That's cool! Call the airlines and quiz them about it. Or actually, easier, just see if you have separate eticket numbers. If you do, you don't need to take outbound flight.

Think of the possibilities if we'd discovered this earlier!! Well, something to stick in our bag of tricks for the next Expedia promo.

Tell us whether you have different eticket numbers!

DaveTO

I hate to be the one to throw water on your passion, but if XP.ca does cancel and offer some kind of peace offering, are you really going to travel to a different country, file a $300 small claims court case? By the way, Ontario requires you to pay $75, travel to the municipal office, serve the papers, then come back to the office to swear an affidavit of service)...and come back to Toronto to plead the case?

Just an FYI, the taxes and fees for flying out of YYZ all of those times would eat up most of the recovery.

I forsee them doing a bulk cancellation on Monday, except for people that are already in progress (who are covered by Ontario's travel protection act). They would then negotiate settlements with the legitimate people covered by the promotion (enough to prevent a class-action lawsuit).

I'm sure their risk management executives are being called back into the office by now to do a brain-storming session with their customer relations team for a cost-benefit analysis.

rjw242

You could do like IAHtraveler above and do all your flying between your obligations (out every night, back in time for work the next morning). Talk about dedication

dwg1

Yes, find your Itinerary....go to My Itinerary .....enter email and expedia itinerary number....on the page is a View Payment Summary

pawtim

With these fast-closing deals, there may simply not be time to read all of the 45 pages.

To answer the original question, I think this offer basically closed around 10:00 EST, because an attempted booking made after that asked a question about being Canadian that hadn't been there half an hour earlier. (By the way, how annoying is it to have to click through so many screens and re-type info just to find out it doesn't work?)

If you want to keep trying, here are a couple of points that have been tripping people up:

For NY, only hotels in Manhattan qualify.

For multiple bookings, use multiple credit card account numbers.

TAWS

People forget that Expedia can still bill you even if you do a chargeback. They have been known to send the amount into collections, essentially extorting you out of the money since they can hurt your credit score.

ellylex

I have the same as you: simply the final charge for Jetblue flight. There is no charge and credit as others report.

IAHtraveler

While it would be absolutely awesome, hotels are cost prohibitive on a lot of dates, which kept me from going to LAS a few more times. And it'd take a lot of coordination because Expedia will only allow you to fly out one day & back the next calendar day (not the same day)... so you'd either have to have lots of overlapping flights or out 1 day, redeye after midnight back; rinse; repeat.

londonienne

Warning: all the preauthorized charges (not actual charges) against my debit cards have disappeared altogether, with no actual charges in their place! Does this mean I should expect a mass cancellation of my bookings? And no: I didn't have a zeroed out balance to pay after the coupon was deducted.

rjw242

Same ticket number, so looks like I can't ditch the outbound I'll try calling the airline anyway, but most likely I'll have to buy that one-way ticket separately. Nuts, this means I'll be spending upwards of $100 on two rooms at the Wynn plus two roundtrip airline tickets! It's an outrage.