How to buy low cost airline tickets while airlines are offering big reductions
A few days ago I wanted to buy Pegasus airline tickets because it was offering a 50% reduction on normal fares. I wanted a few tickets but couldn't even buy a single one. I tried different places with different networks but none worked. I even called my sister in New York to buy tickets for me and the result was again ineffective.
This is not the first time I encountered this problem. I have faced similar issues with other budget airlines as well (Ryanair, AirAsia). All the time during the sale, the website page was unresponsive. Well I do understand it all happens because of airline biggest sale promotion. I have bought promotion tickets "buy 1 get 1" and "Up to 25% off" before, but never been able to buy anything from the biggest sales.
Is there any possibility or hack to buy an airline ticket in one of these sales?
Best Answer
Airlines typically operate separate systems for fare searches and bookings/reservations. The reservations engine or GDS may be a legacy system that still runs on a mainframe! But fare searching is quite an intensive operation, so in order to perform fare searches quickly and at scale, all of the reservations information is mirrored on a much faster, modern system, together with the fares and other data. Unfortunately this means that sometimes the indicative fares returned by a flight search are for fare classes without availability. Where this is the case, there should be advice on the website informing you that "all fares subject to availability" or similar.
One tip that may work with certain airlines: If you are booking multiple seats on a single flight, they will search for the cheapest fare class with the required availability, so if there is only one seat left at the low price, you won't see it... unless you search for a single passenger flight. This is rare but can happen.
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