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From looking at jetstar.com.au it appears they've sold all the $29ers? How
do I find if there are any left? Virginblue has double the $29 seats and nearly all the flights are sold out http://www.virginblue.com.au/sale/seatsale04.html Do you think the airlines will be offering more $29 fares? I've been able to find some good ~$60 flights with good old qantas, so now's the time to travel huh? cole |
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i tried getting a $29er to tassie the first day they went on sale. 5
hours after they opened i finally got through and i had in front of me the chance to purchase a two way ticket. i hesitated for a few minutes, and when i finally clicked purchase, they had been sold. all that were left were $99 tickets. however, several hours later whinging to a friend that i'd missed out, i randomly clicked the same dates i'd tried earlier, and there were some available! that time i didn't hesitate. two lessons to be learned: if you have the chance, buy them! keep trying, i think they may be offering them in stages/bundles. -s- cole wrote: From looking at jetstar.com.au it appears they've sold all the $29ers? How do I find if there are any left? Virginblue has double the $29 seats and nearly all the flights are sold out http://www.virginblue.com.au/sale/seatsale04.html Do you think the airlines will be offering more $29 fares? I've been able to find some good ~$60 flights with good old qantas, so now's the time to travel huh? cole |
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I was lucky enough to purchase 2 tickets TWICE on the same plane to
Hamilton Island!!! It took about 12 hours of constant trying and yes, many times I got to the booking stage before they were then again sold. I was even lucky enough to help a friend to purchase 2 tickets from Newcastle to Brisbane return. All for the $29. The motto is definitely to keep trying!!! |
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Raffi Balmanoukian a wrote:
I wonder about overbooking. No offence to this specific series of sales/transactions (seems to me I paid more than that in Ansett levies!) but all airlines overbook by at least a few seats..... Overbooking is not legal under Australian law. You can't sell something which you know you can't provide, and selling the 101st seat on a plane which only seats 100 is doing exactly that. (Of course, that's not to say that it doesn't occasionally "accidently" occur) Scott. |
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"Scott Howard" wrote in message news:1077967931.111167@docbert... Raffi Balmanoukian a wrote: I wonder about overbooking. No offence to this specific series of sales/transactions (seems to me I paid more than that in Ansett levies!) but all airlines overbook by at least a few seats..... Overbooking is not legal under Australian law. You can't sell something which you know you can't provide, and selling the 101st seat on a plane which only seats 100 is doing exactly that. (Of course, that's not to say that it doesn't occasionally "accidently" occur) Scott. Yet Qantas almost admit that they do it: see http://www.qantas.com.au/info/flying...sCarriage#jump 6 Whilst indeed you can't sell something that you know you can't provide, there is almost invariably a percentage of last minute cancellations and "no-shows" which can be allowed for. Particularly those full-fare passengers who do not have any penalty applied if they don't turn up, those who miss their plane through traffic congestion etc. I doubt whether any airline in Australia has been prosecuted for following this practice. Regards David Bennetts |
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in article , David Bennetts at
wrote on 2/28/04 5:12 PM: "Scott Howard" wrote in message news:1077967931.111167@docbert... Raffi Balmanoukian a wrote: I wonder about overbooking. No offence to this specific series of sales/transactions (seems to me I paid more than that in Ansett levies!) but all airlines overbook by at least a few seats..... Overbooking is not legal under Australian law. You can't sell something which you know you can't provide, and selling the 101st seat on a plane which only seats 100 is doing exactly that. (Of course, that's not to say that it doesn't occasionally "accidently" occur) Scott. Yet Qantas almost admit that they do it: see http://www.qantas.com.au/info/flying...sCarriage#jump 6 Whilst indeed you can't sell something that you know you can't provide, there is almost invariably a percentage of last minute cancellations and "no-shows" which can be allowed for. Particularly those full-fare passengers who do not have any penalty applied if they don't turn up, those who miss their plane through traffic congestion etc. I doubt whether any airline in Australia has been prosecuted for following this practice. Regards David Bennetts Exactly. I think you could stretch the Competition Act (Canada) to cover oversold seats as well (you have to have "reasonable quantity" - two people in one seat isn't....) but overselling is quite openly done. I'm wondering if the Virgin/Jetstar seats aren't being even more oversold than "normal" because a lot of people would be buying on a "what the hell" basis - if they don't go, it's just $29 (or what have you), so there will be more "no shows" than would be the case if they were paying an average of, say, $299.... |
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