What Are Airline Mistake Fare Alerts?

Curious about airline mistake fare alerts or error fares? We explain what they are and if they will honor these price glitches.

Mistake Fares, aka error fares, aka glitch fares have many names but all mean the same thing. Tickets sold by airlines or online travel agencies like Expedia, Priceline, are Orbitz are all automated, and when you have millions of flights, mistakes on published prices happen way more often than you may think.

Mistake fares or error fares can be an insane savings if you are lucky enough to book one.

Do Airlines Honor Price Mistakes or Errors?

While airlines in the US were previously required to honor Mistake Fares, this is no longer the case. However, because it makes for bad PR to not honor them, most of the time they do. In our experience, 90% of mistake fares are honored. Here is a United Airlines Mistake Fares that was free and they still honored it.

If your Mistake Fare is not honored, you will be given the option to purchase the ticket at the intended price or get refunded if the they chose not to honor it..

How Do You Find Airline Mistake Fares?

Finding airline mistake fares is honestly just luck, as the amount of search variables that are possible between departure airport, destination, dates, and fare class? One couldn't invest the amount of time needed to find them regularly. How we find them is having computers scanning those variables 24/7 looking for price abnormalities and then we investigate, confirm and then alert our members of them but without a computer doing it - it's honestly just luck.

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