United said it had accidentally filed some fares for $0, due to a human error. It did not reveal how

Customers using the airline s website were able to book tickets without paying airline fares – just airport and security fees – for a brief time on Thursday due to a human error, United confirmed. The mistake saw some customers quickly book discount flights to high-desirability locations including Hawaii and Las Vegas. celebrity cruising to antarctica United rectified the problem on Thursday but said it would honour the sales.
United said it had accidentally filed some fares for $0, due to a human error. It did not reveal how many tickets were sold at erroneous celebrity cruising to antarctica prices. It shut down its website entirely on Thursday afternoon before reopening at around 2.45pm, according to reports. The discount flights were no longer available when the site came back online.
Andy Farrimond, a software consultant from Washington DC, told CNN Money that he discovered the error as he booked a business celebrity cruising to antarctica trip to Minneapolis. Farrimond alerted a number of co-workers to his discovery, he said. His colleagues spent the next hour booking personal trips to the West Coast and Hawaii, CNN Monday reported.
celebrity cruising to antarctica He came away from the United website having booked trips with his wife to Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose. His co-workers had booked flights to Las Vegas and other popular vacation destinations.
Bob Stokas, from Chicago, told NBC that he had stumbled across the cheap flights while searching for a round-trip ticket to LA next June. He had been expecting to pay up to $400 per ticket when he noticed the cheap fares.
When I scrolled down past the non-stop fares, when I got to the connecting flights, the flights to and from Los Angeles per person was $10, Stokas celebrity cruising to antarctica told NBC. That was a shock and a surprise, and I was like, I ve got to book this flight right now before they rescind their offer of $10 for this flight.
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