PaulInTheSky

Bad thing is, never used them before.

All right I just got into the BOA website and I saw nothing about virtual number generator. Do I have to go to a third party website to generate the numbers? If so, what's the most reliable one?

HansGolden

I've been thinking about that tactic awhile and at first I thought it was brilliant (especially since I had booked a trip for about $50 and realized later I had a schedule conflict; I realize now, however, that I can simply call Expedia to cancel tomorrow), but all of a sudden I had an epiphany that makes that a very bad idea, unless someone can supply further information to the contrary. As TAs, tickets we run that are canceled *must be* reissued by us toward a new ticket. The airline will not do it. I'm assuming it's the same way with Expedia. However, it may be different with Expedia; does anyone have experience with this? If Expedia has to reissue, I'm guessing they won't let you reissue outside of the original deal's validity.

travfar

It's totally possible to book a flight from SFO into NYC, sit at the airport for a couple of hours and fly right back.

Happy

It is an option offered at your card(s) online account.

rankourabu

Good point, I remember with CNZ, one had to get Orbitz to release control to UA to change tickets.

Ah well, it ll be fun to play around with this tomorrow when dust settles, the ticket was $278.52 airline, and $299.97 with hotel (cheapest one in Vegas)


Each of these is costing Expedia $300.

Even if only 10,000 have been booked up to now (I would imagine its much more, since this is not an FT deal, and the destination is not LCA/BUH) .. thats $3 million....heads are gonna roll :P

TAWS

I honestly don't know how this is all going to play out. Obviously, expedia cannot afford to honor all of these bookings and it would be impossible to cancel all of the bookings because some booked flights for tomorrow and others have cancelled flights directly with the airline.

alc

I think that fact that you need to book a flight+hotel deal and hence you can't select a package that do not a hotel night involved. If you flight do not let you stay a night, that will not qualify for the promo... i think

rankourabu

that is true, but you can book an evening flight, and leave last shortly after midnight on the "next day"

Happy

You cancel the ticket directly with the airlines. The key is DONT cancel it right away, although you must cancel it before date of departure, else the ticket has no value.

The airlines will do it, with $20 or $25 fee - called agency fee, to take ownership from the TA, (a bogus fee to generate more revenue really). CO is particular adamant on that to charge the fee. AA and UA not so much. Often the agents forget to charge it.

When Citi's TYP had high redemption value of 0.03/0.02 per pt for business tickets, people did that all the time. I still have a $1500 UA voucher resulted from the 2009 mad dash redemption on the last TYP devaluation. Redeemed 90K TYP for $1800 approx UA biz transcon ticket, canceled with UA and after $150 ticket change fee and a dummy shorthaul refundable, the residual is a $1500 voucher.

geeprice

Yah you need one night hotel, Though I was able to book a SFO-NYC arriving at 11:30 and then leaving at 6:00 am the next morning goona just hang in the airport and skip out on the bed bug infested hostel

alc

the best I found a flight landed around midnight and next flight leave at 7am for my routing. So that is still 6-7 hours and not "couple of hours" as travfar stated. I didn't look at travfar routing from SFO and maybe it is possible for a "couple of hours".

rankourabu

There are a few flights leaving LAS between 12am and 2am

Happy

Look for something called Safe Shopping or whatever fancy name they call it. Click that link and a pop up would show, it is self-explanatory once the pop up shows.

Since FIA cards have it, I am 100% sure BofA cards should have it because BofA owns FIA.

HansGolden

HansGolden.com... Give me a few minutes to set it up...

jan_az

I searched and could not find the eleqeunt post on

The 5 Stages of a deal

I think majic111 wrote it