[FARE GONE]Travelocity.ca quotes LX YYZ-DEL base fare at ZERO.
Dec 31, 2008, 8:54 am
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What legal precedents and/or laws are you referring to?
Dec 31, 2008, 8:56 am
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Dec 31, 2008, 8:58 am
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... and anyway for one guy the offered him to travel the 0$fare itinerary in economy class ... still not a bad deal for 0$ plus tax.
Dec 31, 2008, 8:58 am
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This will get virtually no press so not honoring the tickets is no big deal to them.
Dec 31, 2008, 9:01 am
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all the tickets i bought on swiss.com immediately resulted in an email containing the booking information. usually 2-8 hours later the second email with the etix-number was sent.
just before christmas i bought a ticket within the 24 hour timeframe and i immediately received the booking confirmation and the e-ticket.
maybe they changed their system.
Dec 31, 2008, 10:26 am
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That's just apocryphal count of the Travelocity bookings. There were MANY more bookings than that made via the Swiss web site, Zuji, and probably other booking channels.
Dec 31, 2008, 10:34 am
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Dec 31, 2008, 10:41 am
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IIRC one person commented in the thread saying that an agent claimed "thousands" had been booked.
Dec 31, 2008, 11:14 am
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Seems like everybody is getting a different story/number though...
Dec 31, 2008, 12:50 pm
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I'd also be happy to take my trip to zrh without getting mileage credit for it.
Yesterday, I filed a complaint with the link provided by xyzzy. We'll see if that gets anywhere. Not holding my breath at this point. Like Dan1431 said, when I booked my ticket there was no breakdown of any charges...just a total for the ticket per passenger and a total for both me and my wife. We're supposed to go in mid-Jan, but not looking likely. We'll see if anyone has any success doing anything
Yesterday, I filed a complaint with the link provided by xyzzy. We'll see if that gets anywhere. Not holding my breath at this point. Like Dan1431 said, when I booked my ticket there was no breakdown of any charges...just a total for the ticket per passenger and a total for both me and my wife. We're supposed to go in mid-Jan, but not looking likely. We'll see if anyone has any success doing anything
Dec 31, 2008, 4:14 pm
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True. The latest number I heard was ~150+ from Travelocity alone.
Dec 31, 2008, 8:09 pm
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There is truly such a thing as a zero base fare. Last May, Malaysian Airlines offered such fares:
http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/1408.html
I guess one can truly argue that the LX fare may have been considered to be a promotional fare, just like the Malaysian fare (realizing one difference was the LX fare was a business class fare).
http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/1408.html
I guess one can truly argue that the LX fare may have been considered to be a promotional fare, just like the Malaysian fare (realizing one difference was the LX fare was a business class fare).