Delta ticket price glitch.. BOS - HNL $68

[iflyhigh72]

Delta glitch causes ultra-low fares
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Some Delta customers scored a late Christmas present on Thursday.
Delta acknowledged that a glitch caused steeply-discounted tickets to be offered online Thursday -- some for as low as $12.83, according to customers. They celebrated their finds on social media, including cross-country flights for $40 and Boston to Honolulu lifts for $68.

Cory Watkins, a travel agent in Oklahoma, snagged some of the best bargains he's ever seen -- round-trip, first class from Oklahoma City to St. Louis for $12.83, fares to Anchorage for $87.53, and more. In just under an hour, Watkins spent $1,387.38 for twelve flights for himself and clients for first class trips all over the U.S.
One customer said she bought tickets between Tallahassee and Los Angeles for $27 each way. Those routes normally cost between several hundred and several thousand dollars.
Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter said the airline would honor the incorrectly priced fares, which were offered on the airline's website and other travel sites where it lists tickets.
"For a portion of the morning today, some prices on delta.com and other booking channels were incorrectly displayed, resulting in lower than usual fares for customers," Banstetter said in a statement.
He said the "situation has been resolved and the correct prices are being displayed," but early Thursday afternoon, some ticket searches on Delta's site would not load and produced an error.
The airline did not have an estimate for how many tickets were sold at incorrect prices, Banstetter said.

 

[SIG600]

"This is not a mundane detail, Michael!"

 

[Mercyful Fate]

But Delta is getting 88 717s and ditching a ton of 50 seat CRJs...they can afford to do such things

 

[TMMT]

But Delta is getting 88 717s and ditching a ton of 50 seat CRJs...they can afford to do such things

Don't worry those airframes will make Boston to Honolulu no sweat!

 

[waveflyer]

No such thing as bad publicity-
How many thousands checked out delta hoping for another "glitch"?

 

[SSDD]

Shortly there will be someone here to explain how this was a brilliant move by Delta. They wanted to have a fare sale, but didn't want Southwest to match it, so they disguised it as a computer glitch. Now they will have full flights during the slow travel season...

 

[waveflyer]

Made the national news- lots of non- airline people are talking positive about delta now- SWA should have a "glitch" sale to make fun of delta and steal some of their thunder

 

[scoreboardII]

Sorry, I'm firmly planted on the "this was a setup to gain publicity" side of the deal.. Delta was able to quickly fix the error they caused, right.... little to convenient. All the networks covering it as a main story for two nights. You cannot afford that sort of exposure.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

Sure Scoreboard....Kinda like you guys jazzing my local news up by acting like you are the only airline who flies the honor flights to DC for our veterans.

There are people in our basement wringing their hands trying to come up with a temporary way to lose money to gain publicity. Seriously?? Last year United had the same thing happen and they waffled and flip flopped about whether or not they were going to honor the tickets which actually ended up hurting them. Delta learned from the reaction and came up front right away about it....why is that wrong?

 

[Tanker Clown]

Maybe Delta did this to get some press for ticket prices and away from all of their issues staying on prepared surfaces. Not a bad move.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

3.2 Probable Cause
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilots’ failure to use available reverse thrust in a timely manner to safely slow or stop the airplane after landing, which resulted in a runway overrun. This failure occurred because the pilots’ first experience and lack of familiarity with the airplane’s autobrake system distracted them from thrust reverser usage during the challenging landing.
Contributing to the accident were Southwest Airlines’ 1) failure to provide its pilots with clear and consistent guidance and training regarding company policies and procedures related to arrival landing distance calculations; 2) programming and design of its on board performance computer, which did not present inherent assumptions in the program critical to pilot decision-making; 3) plan to implement new autobrake procedures without a familiarization period; and 4) failure to include a margin of safety in the arrival assessment to account for operational uncertainties. Also contributing to the accident was the pilots’ failure to divert to another airport given reports that included poor braking actions and a tailwind component greater than 5 knots. Contributing to the severity of the accident was the absence of an engineering materials arresting system, which was needed because of the limited runway safety area beyond the departure end of runway 31C.

 

[Full of LUV]

Maybe Delta did this to get some press for ticket prices and away from all of their issues staying on prepared surfaces. Not a bad move.

Tanker,
One of the little pleasures in life to me is knowing that you will never (nor want to be) a Delta pilot. That's why I only try and fly Delta.
LUV

 

[Remington]

Finally price and product are in line.

 

[General Lee]

Finally price and product are in line.

Compared to SWA?? Did you guys have a 99 cent sale?


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[scoreboardII]

Sure Scoreboard....Kinda like you guys jazzing my local news up by acting like you are the only airline who flies the honor flights to DC for our veterans.

There are people in our basement wringing their hands trying to come up with a temporary way to lose money to gain publicity. Seriously?? Last year United had the same thing happen and they waffled and flip flopped about whether or not they were going to honor the tickets which actually ended up hurting them. Delta learned from the reaction and came up front right away about it....why is that wrong?

Chilax dude, Merry new year!

Did I say SWA didn't do this type of thing?

Look, good on DAL for playing a cheap trick and having all the major networks talk how bad it was for poor old DAL... How many cheap tickets were sold, hundreds? How many were sold later beacuse folks kept looking, tens of thousands? And how many will keep looking and looking< trillions?

Bad all the way to the bank dude.

I wager the exec who came up with this is the new VP of rake the cash in. dept./

Not buying for one minute a major airline tech department which "accidently caused" the glitch, could recover inside of minutes, far to convenient.

 

[Remington]

Compared to SWA?? Did you guys have a 99 cent sale?


Bye Bye---General Lee

Not at SWA. Familiar with the W2 thread? I would be scared to post what a DAL 767 driver makes too.

 

[General Lee]

Not at SWA. Familiar with the W2 thread? I would be scared to post what a DAL 767 driver makes too.

As an FO I make more than your Capts probably. Being senior in category really helped. Greenslips (double pay) really added to it. Goodnight!


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[BOX OFFICE]

I don't think it was intentional, but all it really did is bump a few non-revs. Good move by management to honor the tickets and take the free publicity.

 

[General Lee]

I don't think it was intentional, but all it really did is bump a few non-revs. Good move by management to honor the tickets and take the free publicity.

So wait, your Expressjet management did what???? Huh?


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Scoot 11]

Glad to see another DL thread ambushed by the regular pay for training sellout southwest trolls