[PREM FARE GONE] AF Business Class LAX - LHR $1515
Dec 21, 2017, 1:45 am
#632
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But you can be sure that AF is dealing with all third parties in the background and will get them to cancel...
Dec 21, 2017, 1:49 am
#633
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I think with the amount of fare cancellation by airlines, FT really needs to add a SAD reaction to posts now...
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Dec 21, 2017, 1:51 am
#634
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They can, but shouldn't and most likely won't. Alitalia unilatetally cancelled all of their error-fare bookings this time last year - including those made by third parties/travel agencies - but that was unprecedented.
But you can be sure that AF is dealing with all third parties in the background and will get them to cancel...
But you can be sure that AF is dealing with all third parties in the background and will get them to cancel...
Dec 21, 2017, 1:54 am
#635
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My ticket was also cancelled overnight 
Turns out this was a private rate that was intended solely for use of friends & family of Meghan Markle to travel from LAX/SFO to London for next year's Royal Wedding. Or, like, whenever.
FFFWUS: F F fare, Friends & Family rate for Wedding from US.
(If anyone can provide Air France with evidence of their eligibility for this fare, your ticket should be reinstated)
Turns out this was a private rate that was intended solely for use of friends & family of Meghan Markle to travel from LAX/SFO to London for next year's Royal Wedding. Or, like, whenever.
FFFWUS: F F fare, Friends & Family rate for Wedding from US.
(If anyone can provide Air France with evidence of their eligibility for this fare, your ticket should be reinstated)
Dec 21, 2017, 1:58 am
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Dec 21, 2017, 2:02 am
#637
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Interestingly I've received a cancelation email from Delta reading "the ticket(s) you recently purchased for travel on Air France La Premiere/First class has been cancelled due to an incorrect fare filing", but DL website, AF website and Saudia website show it alive and kicking. Sadly booking made through DL, so can't get into the PNR notes.
Dec 21, 2017, 2:41 am
#638
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mine was cancelled last night (ticket was booked with AF.de), then I called the AF hotline and after requesting his supervisor the agent reinstated the ticket... about 30min later it was cancelled again. Until now i got no call or notice by mail...
Dec 21, 2017, 5:10 am
#639
Join Date: Jan 2017
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I think with the amount of fare cancellation by airlines, FT really needs to add a SAD reaction to posts now...
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Me and the missus are flying SWISS on boxing day/returning new years day NCE-ZRH-SFO on the B777 and cannot wait
That fare was only live for a couple of hours on midnight between friday and saturday CET. I wonder if that has something to do with whether the fare is honored or not as not a ton of people jumped on it due to people in the region of the departure airport were mostly asleep.
If I recall correctly, the Sake fare was similarly posted in the early hours of the morning CET and as it was out of AMS, it might have been a similar situation that not that many FT'ers (or readers of the bloggers) saw it.
Last edited by groovyfly; Dec 21, 2017 at 5:53 am Reason: Wrong price given
Dec 21, 2017, 5:40 am
#640
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My ticket was also cancelled overnight
Turns out this was a private rate that was intended solely for use of friends & family of Meghan Markle to travel from LAX/SFO to London for next year's Royal Wedding. Or, like, whenever.
FFFWUS: F F fare, Friends & Family rate for Wedding from US.
(If anyone can provide Air France with evidence of their eligibility for this fare, your ticket should be reinstated)
Turns out this was a private rate that was intended solely for use of friends & family of Meghan Markle to travel from LAX/SFO to London for next year's Royal Wedding. Or, like, whenever.
FFFWUS: F F fare, Friends & Family rate for Wedding from US.
(If anyone can provide Air France with evidence of their eligibility for this fare, your ticket should be reinstated)
Also, as for testing the DOT rule and discussing what is or is not reasonable -- take a look at this thread. It seems to me this is precisely what the DOT meant by making a customer "whole". The guy had other tickets booked, saw this fare for cheaper, booked it and canceled the others. Now, he cannot get those bookings back. Clearly, due to AF's action, the customer is no longer "whole". It would seem to me that in order to make the customer whole again, AF would need to either honor this fare or re-book the customer on their original BA F.
Dec 21, 2017, 5:48 am
#642
Join Date: Jul 2015
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I think with the amount of fare cancellation by airlines, FT really needs to add a SAD reaction to posts now...
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Pho Fare, Sake fare, and ANA Sydney are the only big ones that survived this year? I must be missing something though. EK MLE?
BA Ecuador, AZ DUS, Virgin OZ deal, SWISS award, etc, have all fallen under. RIP.
all 12 tix me and my friends have got on this itin have been cancelled. Next one will be better I guess.
Dec 21, 2017, 6:30 am
#643
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According to the person who handled my VA J fare that DL honored on DL metal. It was delta who decided to honor, not DOT action forcing them to. Why EK cancelled first, I don't know. Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't.
Dec 21, 2017, 6:38 am
#644
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Are a lot of folks here filing DOT complaints? On the fence whether its the right thing to do or whether it'd make a difference, especially if the law allows them to cancel in the first place.
