Air Canada didn’t collect the fuel surcharge on most of their international flights on Sunday morning, making for some insane bargains in coach and business class to destinations across the globe as I covered in these four posts. The glitch lasted over 4 hours from when I first posted the deal, a surprisingly long amount of time for these types of deals.
I predicted on Sunday that Air Canada would honor the tickets despite there no longer being a requirement for them to do so, and indeed, Air Canada’s Twitter team has now confirmed with me that they will be honoring any confirmed tickets that were booked on Sunday without fuel surcharges. You can enter your record locator on AirCanada.com under “My Bookings” to check that your tickets are confirmed.
There have been reports of people who booked on various fly-by-night online travel agencies who have been cancelled. The reason for that is that many of those agencies don’t have instant ticketing, so those bookings were cancelled. This often happens with the smaller online travel agencies and is why I don’t recommend using them. I haven’t seen any reports of people who booked tickets from Priceline or Orbitz being cancelled.
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Woohoo! Ty Dan
Awesome work Dan! This was a great find. Thanks as always for the follow up.
Did you book anything? I was tempted but already have too many trips on the books.
Air Canada actually confirmed this on Sunday already, on the phone, and on Twitter if you sent them your PNR via DM
I was waiting for an official confirmation in writing that didn’t require a record locator.
COOL,
BTW, they time-changed the YYZTLV Flight to 4:55 PM (instead of 5:00), ppl who bought should verify that they are still under minimum connection time in YYZ (Which is 1 hour on the outbound if you tarvel from NYC), These 5 minutes can some times make a difference,
If your stop in only 55 minutes, you can rebook the domestic segment by calling AC cust. service.
I’m on that flight. Do you know if its the same terminal or do we have to change terminals once we get to YYZ
No need to change terminals, since you land in and depart from terminal 1,
If your stop in less then an hour, you can rebook the domestic segment by calling AC cust. service.
It’s an hour and 3 minutes
That should still be fine, but if you want you can try to Call AC and change to the 12:30 flight, instead of the 2:20 flight,
If they don’t allow the change you can arrive to the airport earlier and they’ll give you the earlier flight there, (they usually offer anyone who arrive’s early to take earlier flights to Toronto for no extra cost).
Thank you for answering
Great news !
Thanks again for all you do
Thank you dan! I booked a flight from LA that would have costed me over 1k. And it was a flight i needed to buy anyway.
Thank you for saving me so much $$$!
That’s amazing
I checked “my booking” and my reference number loads the tickets, how do I see if they’re “confirmed”?
If it’s there and doesn’t say cancelled, you should be good to go.
Feel free to call Air Canada to confirm.
Just a suggestion… maybe those that booked the discounted no-YQ tickets should contribute a portion of the savings to the Houston relief efforts… #payitforward
Everyone can help with that one 🙂
Charity is always a good idea but, honestly, Houston doesn’t need your money and won’t actually get it anyway. Your charitable contributions to organizations like the Red Cross will replenish their coffers for the next disaster, which is a good thing, however.
I booked with Priceline and they game me a booking number but it was never confirmed by air canada and I didn’t get my flights
Tried calling Priceline and Air Canada yet?
What route and when did you book?
Thank you! i booked 3 tickets and trying to pay for preferred seats for only 1 of the tickets online but its not allowing it. only if i choose seats for all 3 (& pay). any way around that?
Call Air Canada.
We booked but we have a 7 hour stopover in Germany. Is it worth it? Ideas of what to do in Germany for 7 hours? Just me and 1 teenager. Will they let you leave the airport? Anything to do. Advice Welcome !
Germany is a country, not a city…
Of course you can leave the airport.
Frankfurt is the city. My son flew through there last week and was told he couldn’t leave the international terminal.
You can definitely leave, no idea who told him that.
Lots to do from kivrei tzadikim to castles:
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=3222.0
There are days that the museum with the keys to the cemetery is closed. This would really alter your plans to visit because you would be locked out of the cemetery.
I believe anybody with an American passport is allowed to enter Germany if your passport is valid and remains valid for a sufficient. Amount Of time after the date of your visit I think the requirement might be 6 months for the EU
There is a compnay specializing in layover walking tours of Frankfurt; they meet you at the airport. I expressed interest in a Jewish-themed walking tour of Frankfurt, which was accomodated. The guide, American, but not Jewish, was very knowledgeable. It was perfectly suitable for kids as well.
Thanks. Could you post the name of the company ?
You must go shopping at Mexx
Huge THANKS Dan for letting us all know about these incredible fares
With all respect, why do you allow fly by night and small unreputable travel agencies and car rental companies to advertise on your site? They wouldn’t have been able to catch these great deals.
No idea what you’re talking about.
I advised booking these deals on Priceline.
was there any availability for succos to tlv from NYC on this glitch? also i booked air Berlin to tlv for succos and coming back right after when Dan posted the airfare deals last week for 502. is there a chance they wont fly by the because they’ll be bankrupt ? or unlikely ?thanks
Now if I wanted to cancel my ticket closer in to the departure date, would air Canada let me cancel for free? Being as that they would rather have my ticket back so they can charge full price. Any data point on that historically?
If I have a lap child who will be just over one and will be under 25 lbs (weight limit for bassinet), will they give me an assigned seat so my husband and I can be together by an aisle? Do you think they will give me the bassinet seat?
Did you try calling them? Let us know what happened!
is it important to pay for seat selection? could we get bumped off the flight if we don’t have assigned seats?
I chose the wrong dates by accident. I need to cancel but I missed the 24 hours deadline. Any chance air Canada will let me cancel if I tell them that I don’t feel it’s right ethically to keep the ticket?
it doesn’t belong here but any idea if united call me back is dead ?
the BWI to TLV flight was originally a 1hour layover in YYZ now they changed it to 55 min. Dan, what do you suggest we do ?
I called and they suggested I do nothing yet as flight times change all the time. He offered me an early morning flight out of BWI if I really wanted but suggested I check back closer to the flight. (I am not going till February).
will Air Canada change flights to their own carrier from Lufthansa on the sales tickets without any increase in prices
Ain’t Gonna happen
Always nice to see these deals honored. Of course, it’s a bit of a mixed blessing because while I got an insane deal to JNB (in the $200s roundtrip), the trip has a “price” — my flight time is almost 30 hours, in coach! Is it worth it? I don’t know. I’ll tell you after the trip. But, really, who could resist a bargain like this? 🙂
Enjoy the layover in London and stop kvetching.
Fair enough, but the layovers are 6 hours. Just enough time to be really long and not really enough time to make it worthwhile leaving the airport. There’s also the sleepiness factor. The outbound is a double redeye!
Windsor castle during the LHR connection?
How long are you in JNB for? Going to Cape Town? Kruger? Vic Falls?
Dan, quick question: could i book such deals or any similar glitch with my CSR UR website for 1.5?
thanks
I wish I would have used my chase points… dan will chase apply my points to the booking? i used the reserve card
Not sure yet where we’re going in South Africa (depends on availability of family members there), but it will likely be Cape Town (good time of year to go) or Kruger (always a great place to visit).
It costs 11 GPB to store each piece of luggage at LHR. I wasn’t planning on checking any bags on Air Canada because we just have normal carry-on (rollerboards and small backpacks) and don’t want to take the risk of getting our luggage lost in the transfer from Air Canada to South African (this has happened to us before). With 6 hours, how much time would we realistically have after clearing customs, storing luggage and getting back to the airport in time for our flight? I would think about 3 1/2 hours. That’s not much time. To solve the luggage storage problem, I was thinking I could rent a car (put luggage in the trunk) and drive to Windsor. Without traffic, that’s probably 20 minutes. The car would only cost me about 30 Pounds. But is that worth it — especially after taking a redeye and being sleepy? I don’t know.
Now that I booked, the hard part is finding a good affordable place to stay. Dan, naybe you can find a good hotel deal?
Priceline froze, and Orbitz priced out at double the price. I booked on Kayak, with a link to Vayama. My tickets are confirmed on the AC site. CPH here we come. I’ll worry about hotels and other Avios destinations after I return from the JFK/SIN $343 trip. 😉
i booked for 2 adults with child on lap to isreal for 785$, thanks dan!
just a small question, the assigned seats is only if i bought a seat for my children, or also if i bought child on lap?