Problems with United Bookings?
I just saw this short story come across from Associated Press.
United shuts down website bookings
3:31 PM ET, 09/12/2013 – Associated Press
United Airlines was selling some tickets on Thursday for as little as $5 before shutting down bookings on its website.
Some customers were able to buy tickets before the airline stopped accepting orders on the website. A message on Thursday afternoon said flight searches and bookings were shut down for all flights. United also is not taking reservations by phone.
A United spokeswoman didn’t have an immediate comment.
Airline fare mistakes have happened before, often when an airline drops a digit when entering fares into its computer system. Social media such as Twitter ensures that word of such mistake fares spreads even faster than before.
I tried the website and had no issues. Anyone else experiencing weirdness on the United website bookings today?
More importantly, anyone get any $5 fares?
I heard about this but was not able to confirm it.
Heard about it but did not partake. For me personally, it seems just as morally corrupt to take predatory advantage of an obvious mistake by a corporation as another human being.