Kacee

That's never stopped extended FT debate based exclusively on speculation

mduell

What did your choice of ticket agent say when you asked them about it? Did they tell UA to cancel it?

Collierkr

Weekend Away

For what it's worth, I routinely buy U.S. roundtrip to Europe for under $500. I've had some as cheap as $400. A few weeks ago I flew United ATL-EWR-CDG-IAD-ATL for $445/€375. Cheap economy fares agree out there all the time.

I've even purchased from several sketchy OTA's just like the OP and I've never had a problem. Sometimes OTA's run a sale that's only done by them. I bought ATL-CDG-ATL DL/AF on Expedia a few months back for $460 while everywhere else it was $1100+.

So their price isn't weird. In fact, I just saw today LAX-MAD-LAX for $280 on Iberian.

I would assume that the EU Rules would apply to this flight since it departs from the EU. OP, you could try filing a claim over three. Or just buy another ticket?

jsloan

UA regularly publishes near-zero base fares on TATL flights. Earlier today I saw a $31 base fare RT on a TATL. Now, that excludes the fuel surcharge -- the biggest of the "taxes and fees" -- but insinuating that these low fares are always mistakes or that OP is somehow trying to take advantage of something that's "obviously too good to be true" is silly. UA will open seats in these discount buckets when they don't think they'll sell the seats otherwise. They hope they make some extra revenue in ancillary charges, but mostly -- they're flying the plane anyway, so they may as well fill the seats. The marginal cost of each incremental passenger is fairly small.

RooseveltL

Without additional details sounds like you have an OTA problem and not a United problem. While they can blame UA for not honoring their transaction the issue is on their end as never have I purchased a ticket via an airline directly and they cancelled it later.

enviroian

flyerbaby19

Not enough info to provide meaningful advice.

findark

Exclusive of YQ, $1.00 and $0.50 K fares are commonplace.

Hollandair

My apologies, there is no stop-over. its BRU to LAS with a 2 hr stop in IAD and back LAS-BRU with a short stop in DEN and LHR

I received additional information. The ticket was voided by the OTA because the first legged was booked under a SN-flight number which United did not allow.
If that is the case, how could it have been that the ticket was issued for a short amount of time?

Kacee

It's still not enough info about the itinerary to know what went wrong. My best guess is one of two possibilities: (1) TA issued a ticket that violated fare rules, or (2) UA made a mistake.

Hollandair

What more info would you require?

Kacee

Specific carriers, flights, dates, and booking booking class for each segment.

That's the info necessary to tell whether the itinerary violates a fare rule.

wpcoe

What would be really nice to see -- but not sure you have any way of accessing it -- is the fare construction/routing. Something like:

BRU UA X/WAS UA LAS 40.51KLO3ILGT UA X/DEN UA X/FRA LH BRU 40.51KLO3ILGT NUC 81.02 END ROE 0.863772 XT 35.50BE 5.65YC 7.00XY 3.96XA 36.60US 11.20AY 10.60DE 25.00RA 164.70YQ 4.50XF DEN4.50

I know that looks like Greek, but it would be very helpful to figure out what about that faring UA found to be unacceptable.

Easier that that, it would also be helpful to know the exact itinerary: Airlines, flight numbers, departure/arrival cities, dates, and times. If there was any breakdown, can you provide the fare and tax/fee portions of the final price?

Based on my checking fares on your routing, my best guess would be that the UA fare (segments BRU-IAD-LAS-DEN-LHR) was not combinable with the LHR-BRU fare. I see lots of routings for around the same price as yours but none via DEN & LHR on the return.

Even though the issue turned out to be something different (see below) I thought I'd delete my guess above because I later did find connections via DEN & LHR using Brussels Airilnes LHR-BRU.

(I see @Kacee replied while I was typing...)

Finkface

The OP has already been told what the issue was. See post #40 .
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/30250948-post40.html