Earlier today I wrote about amazing coach fares as low as $138 roundtrip between Europe and the US. These are mostly with Air Canada.
I’m in a car enroute to the airport despite Hurricane Harvey, so not a lot of time to work through but, but it turns out that there are $900-ish roundtrips in business class from several cities in the U.S. to several cities in Europe.
Via One Mile at a Time consider Boston – Paris for $910, Newark – Frankfurt $950, Boston – Amsterdam $851, Boston – Rome for $1135.
There’s apparently a thread on Flyertalk as well.
Key rules:
- Fare basis code P2XNC79S/QYYJ
- Fare says tickets must be issued by September 7, but this will not last that long, it probably won’t last more than a few hours.
- $450 change fee
- Travel permitted Monday Tuesday, or Wednesday on the outbound.
- Travel permitted Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday on the return.
You can apparently book from Seattle for a few hundred dollars more, and fly roundtrip to Mumbai for under $1800.
Since we don’t know for certain how airlines will feel about such a deep discount airfare sale, whether they might get seller’s remorse, I’d wait a few days after buying tickets before making additional non-refundable travel plans around the fare.
In theory an airline refusing to honor a sale like this would have to reimburse any out of pocket costs you incurred but there’s not much history with enforcement of that particular DOT statement so I’d still not test it.
A bit late to the party. Most fares appear to have been fixed at this point though they still show on Google flights they are now pricing higher on OTAs and AC website.
What dates for BOM?
It all died before 11 am. Seems to have been a failure to add YQ.
Most of biz class routings were bad, and the fares weren’t that great. Like under $300 in coach to Asia and $2000 in biz class. NYC-Europe was around $1100, as opposed to $250 in coach.
It all depends on what you think premium cabin service is worth. I think most folks would say this was an unbelievable deal in coach and a “meh” deal in business.
I would file DOT complaints if they cancel these tickets. No reason for consumers to know these fares were not legit given the very low fares we see from Norwegian and others. It’s not like AC economy is a much better product…
@Boraxo — I like the idea of using Norwegian’s fares in a DOT Complaint. Air Canada’s defense would have to be something like “We may be sloppy with our pricing, but we’re a rational airline. We don’t INTENTIONALLY sell our tickets below cost.”