cfares.com
 

Does anyone have any experience with this site? Their "Platinum" ($50/yr) level seems to give access to generally unavailable fares.

As this is not a miles specific question, I'll move it to the more general "travel buzz".

cfares.com
 

A few weeks ago I made reservations on cfare.com for our flights from Beijing to Shanghai, three business class tickets, and got our confirmation numbers online. All was well, heard nothing back from them about any problems and my credit card was charged for all three tickets.

Imagine the joy when we get to the airport that morning and there's no reservations, no e-tickets, no nothing. And we speak no Chinese. The 14 year old was crying and my partner panicked; an hour of work with China Eastern and we found that the reservations were cancelled by cfares on the 22nd of September, six days before our flights! They told us nothing whatsoever and would have been perfectly happy to strand us in Beijing.

We finally heard back from them after complaining very loudly, and they told me that they couldn't issue electronic tickets, and had no way to reach me (no phone, e-mail, or physical address) in order to get us paper tickets. Somehow they had all three of these to charge my credit card, just not to let me know that they'd destroyed our reservations.

Beware!

As posted over in the same thread on Newstand, pricing an upcoming international trip via their "special, Platinum, for fee, have to register" fare was $2,156 higher than what freebie Kayak gave me.

With the automation of today's reservation systems, I can't imagine what "Below market airfares created in real time just for you" are.

On some domestic flights I checked, the fares are the same as found everywhere else with the exception of the "Platinum Rebate". I suppose flying enough, and assuming the rebates are real, you could save some money.

Don't waste your money. cFares cannot possibly have any access to hidden deals on all airlines that others don't.