Crazy €750+ BA / AA business class fares to New York, Boston, DC

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• JoeP says:

  12 Jan12 January 12:18

  It has been over 48 hours since this deal expired, and I have had no communication from BA to say that they won’t honour these bookings. Has anyone else heard anything regarding what action they plan to take (if any)?

  • Marc says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:26

    Same here… booking is still visible in my account, no mail, no refund whatsoever. My e-ticket has not been canceled as well.

• Jman says:

  12 Jan12 January 18:01

  I regretted at the time not pulling a trigger but in hindsight I’d be too stressed about it cancelling. So glad I didn’t book!

  • Mart says:

    12 Jan12 January 19:46

    Then you missed out on the sale fare of the year 🙂

    • Jman says:

      15 Jan15 January 23:19

      Not necessarily. Saved on a lot of unnecessary stress. But hope it works out for you guys

• DublinFlyer says:

  14 Jan14 January 10:04

  Anyone know how much notice they would need to give if they are going to cancel? I successfully got DUB-JFK departing October 5, but don’t want to arrive on the morning of the flight or even shortly beforehand to be told my ticket isn’t valid!!

  • JoeP says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:40

    If a party to a contract wishes to assert unilateral mistake as a basis for rescinding the contract, they are normally required to do this as soon as practical after the unilateral mistake is discovered. Since BA pulled the fares from their system on Tuesday within few hours after having published them, it could be easily argued that they discovered these contracts existed at that time. So I t gets harder for them to assert unilateral mistake as time goes on. Past behaviour is also taken into account. If they were able to cancel all erroneous tickets within 4 days of issuance 5 years ago, it becomes hard to argue that they should not be able to do so now.
    Another problem they’ve got is that some tickets were issued for 750-950€, but then others for 450-600€. They might not get away with asserting that a 950€ ticket is an obvious mistake, but where do they draw the line? It makes it difficult for them to cancel some tickets issued based on an error fare but not others.
    But as has been pointed out, they might take the risk of legal action being brought against them, so despite the issues I pointed out, I wouldn’t count on anything yet. But as time goes on, I wouldn’t worry as much

    • DublinFlyer says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:18

      Thanks. 8 days after booking and my booking still showing as ‘confirmed’. Fingers crossed!

      • Marc says:

        19 Jan19 January 13:21

        Same here. Still confirmed. No word from BA.

• JoeP says:

  19 Jan19 January 21:22

  Still nothing to indicate any problem after 9 days.
  I decided to do some research in the meantime to see what we could do if BA decided to cancel these bookings.
  One issue BA has is that the sale is to US cities. US Department of Transport would require them to reimburse any of us for any non-refundable costs we incurred due to booking these fares. USDOT has taken enforcement action against BA before (not for this issue) so we would have rights under DOT regulations if they decided to cancel.
  Also, UK law does not apply to these tickets. Instead, the law of the country of booking applies (you can find the country on your ticket). Contract law in many continental jurisdictions is much more in favour of the consumer than in the UK. Irish law is closer to English law however. But still, I don’t think they’d get away with asserting a unilateral mistake on the Dublin tickets since so much time has elapsed.
  I honestly think that given these variables, and given the fact that 9 days have passed with no communication from BA, but instead everything being normal with these bookings, they will honour them.

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