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Variable ticket prices

  • 19-09-2007 11:49am
    #1
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Planning to go to Chile for the new year - the problem is the cost of the flights. The current cheapest & fastest is Air France via CDG (yuck) at a cost of €3600 for two, return.

    The problem is, how can I know that these prices won't drop between now and flight time? The danger is that if I leave it much longer there won't be any seats available, but I'll be sick as a parrot if I see the tickets for half that price in two weeks' time.

    Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Very unlikely that they will drop - are your dates flexible? It's quite possible they're just busy due to the time of year (assuming from your post that your going around Christmas/New Year). If so, that would explain the high costs - it's peak time and the prices well probably just get..well..peakier.


  • #3
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    The gf booked similar flights last year, and the price dropped about a week later :(

    Dates aren't terribly flexible, the plan is to be in Santiago for new year.


  • #4
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    As I said, it's unlikely - not impossible mind you, but unlikely - certainly not something you could depend on.


  • #5
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    So she did some shuffling with the dates, got a reasonable-looking fare, and tried to book - that's when the comedy of errors started.

    First, the AF website wouldn't accept her credit card. She rang them to try to find out why, and was put on hold for 20 minutes, after which she was told she had called the wrong number, and was given a different number. Back on hold for another 20 minutes, at the end of which she got a recording saying they had gone home for the evening and to call back tomorrow.

    So this morning she calls again. After 20 minutes on hold, she's told it's a standard security block by the credit card company (not unusual, in fairness), and to call them.

    So she calls her bank, and after waiting in a queue gets through to a call centre in India where the operator, with very poor English, starts walking through an utterly irrelevant script, at the end of which he puts her on hold and cuts her off. She calls back, waits in the queue, gets through to another operator with minimal English, who starts the same script all over again.

    That's when the shouting started.

    Eventually the guy caved and put her through to someone who spoke English and knew what he was talking about - he confirmed some details and lifted the block. Happily, Air France were obviously retrying at intervals, because after an hour or so the booking confirmation has come through.

    Roll on a sunny new year!


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