Jack and Scott’s cheap flights

[Ash]

Happy New Year fellow HfP’ers and happy travels for 2023.

Has anyone had good or bad experiences with Jack and Scott’s flight clubs? Be very interested to know of real life deals flown from either.

Scott’s lets you select 5 airports to follow, seems useful if you are US based or using US as connection to Carribean/Canada/central america, Hawaii or to visit another part of the US.

https://scottscheapflights.com/

https://jacksflightclub.com/

[HughM]

I receive Jack’s regular free tips. His standard advice is: flights will sell very quickly at these prices, so double-check first on Google. No, I’ve never actually flown through Jack, but am looking at a 7 am wizz flight from Gatwick later in the month. Awkward, from where I live.

[JDB]

Some bargain Jack’s flights are ‘error’ fares that airlines end up cancelling a while after booking with little or no recourse.

[Rob]

We have a Jack’s sub so any good business class deals will end up on HfP. However, it is well over a year since anything interesting turned up. If you do a lot of economy flying then there may be some value in it.

For Business, you’re better off with Luxury Flight Club or similar.

[Ash]

Thanks all.

@rob yes Jack’s seems Dover the budget and economy flights.

@jdb airlines can do that? Revoke an “error fares” at their whim with no need to rebook or reroute passenger with another flight or carrier?

[JDB]

Ash wrote:

Thanks all.

@rob yes Jack’s seems Dover the budget and economy flights.

@jdb airlines can do that? Revoke an “error fares” at their whim with no need to rebook or reroute passenger with another flight or carrier?

Yes, they can and you have essentially no recourse as cancelling your booking is different to cancelling your flight. Mistake is also a ground for breaking a contract. My son had this with a fare from Jack’s on AM in business which they simply downgraded to eco saying it was a mistake, then wouldn’t refund either, even though it was a refundable fare. Amex sorted it out fortunately.

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

Depending on the number of tickets sold an airline may well just eat the lost income and end the offer.

There is the reasonableness test as well – is would be obvious to most reasonable people that a fare from London to Sydney in first for £250 is an error whereas £2000 can be seen as a reasonable “good deal” and not an error.

And courts have also ruled that a store doesn’t have to honour deals like a TV being marked as £2.99 when it should have been £ 299 when it is a clear error. Exception would be say £2.99 to the first 10 customers as that would be seen as a considered marketing promo.

There was a chap who took an airline to MCOL over a “mistake fare” when the airline revoked his ticket as a “mistake”. He won his case but also lost because the case came after the flight date so the judge couldn’t order the airline to fly him.

[John]

It seems to be like “ex-EU” deals in economy for airlines from less visited countries. My friend said they had a deal which let him visit Kazakhstan for “free” on his trip to Thailand and Vietnam… but he had to get from the UK to some minor French airport to start, which ended up costing him more than the economy long-haul tickets, and the whole trip also took him 48 hours in each direction.

[aseftel]

Flyertalk has a discussion board for these sort of deals https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals-740/

[Lady London]

Ash wrote:

Thanks all.

@rob yes Jack’s seems Dover the budget and economy flights.

@jdb airlines can do that? Revoke an “error fares” at their whim with no need to rebook or reroute passenger with another flight or carrier?

For them to be able to revoke it, it has to have been obvious to you when you booked, that it was a mistake.

If a normal person wouldn’t have spotted it as a mistake then they can’t just cancel and walk away legally, actually. It’s all a question of was it reasonable for a normal person to have known it was an error when they booked, or not. If not then legally they must honour.