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CheapAir Reviews Summary

CheapAir has a rating of 3 stars from 364 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CheapAir most frequently mention customer service, great experience and travel plans. CheapAir ranks 26th among Plane Tickets sites.

service
19
value
16
shipping
6
returns
9
quality
16

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3 reviews
56 helpful votes
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Good experience
June 4, 2017

I used cheapair first time and my experience was good. I have an issue regarding price increased but later it solved by a representative.

Date of experience: June 3, 2017
Virginia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Happy
June 3, 2017

Great experience every thing went smoothly. Wonderful pricing. Will use next time and tell my friends and family.

Date of experience: June 2, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst service
May 21, 2017

How can you change someone's ticket and traveling plan without confirming the change with your customer? That's just WRONG. First they changed my uncles' flight and didn't send them confirmation/update/notification email. And they change their international flight. They got a meeting to go to, customer's schedule is not something that cheap air can decide. And to get the schedule back to what it was, they want to charge my uncles $200 per person. You kidding?! You changed the the flight (no body asked you to), ruined the schedule, to ask you to change to back is good enough for you, and you ask for money for your own mistake? That's not reasonable at all.

Date of experience: May 21, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Didn't have a problem buying my ticket. Going to buy my next airline tickets a cheapair.com again!

Date of experience: May 3, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Deceptive
April 22, 2017

Read the fine print. Booked a direct flight from a canadian origin to canadian destination. Price quoted from cheap air was from westjet and the cheap air price was about $20 less RT than the westjet site. Not much but worthwhile. Booked and when received visa bill the price was in us dollars, which made it hundreds more than westjet fare direct from westjet site. Checked my bill and no where next to any numbers was us dollars. Only an asterisk to the bottom fine print indicating us dollars. Partly my fault but misleading none the less, especially on canada only flights.

Date of experience: April 21, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible experience
April 21, 2017

It will never ever deal with this company in my life I try to correct a name on the ticket within the free window time the keep ask me to pay fee every time I spoke with representatives he give me different fee they just try to get money in any way

Date of experience: April 20, 2017
Wyoming
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Sketchy but fine
April 3, 2017

When I logged onto my account on the website my flight never came up after I booked it, but I had the confirmation email so I was fine and my flights all worked out super well. I had no problems my flight was cheaper then most just make sure you check the bagging situation before you book if you're trying to save every penny I spent a decent amount on that added to my flight. I was double charged at first but it gets taken away after a day or so it's just how it works I assume.

Date of experience: April 3, 2017
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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0 stars for this CheapAir
February 24, 2017

Not cheap at all, they charge $150 for a cancellation made less than 7 hours, i cancelled because they want to charge for baggage $45 plus $40 carry on, plus water in the fly on Spirit. I decide to pay the $150 cancellation fee to avoid flying on that company, then next day i check my bank account and the charge $44 extra they never mention they will charge, it was for their service using their website to booking the fly. Cheap on Air? Not at all. That is not the right way to do business. WORSE EXPERIENCE EVER.

Date of experience: February 24, 2017
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The four hour window cancellation is a fraud and misleading. It's the old bate and hook trick. The tickets only needed to be changed to the arrival airport instead of saying in was $280 more he said that that was the price. I asked for a refund and they kept rebuttaling me. Now I have to wait 10 to 14 days for my money?! It's been over a week and I'm just now getting a confirmation of a refund. This is so uncleprofessional and sloppy. They need to get people who you can understand clearly. I shouldn't have to keep asking to repeat what they said and it's frustrating!

Date of experience: December 3, 2016
Sweden
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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The site marks it has a 4 hour cancellation policy - however, this does not apply for most airlines, so the cancellation policy is complete nonsense. If you try to get customer support they charge you huge fees to change and try to persuade you into buying tickets now.
Very unethical site.

Date of experience: October 19, 2016
District of Columbia
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Selected a flight for $426. When I checked out the system message showed "ops that ticket was booked by another person". However, at booking there wasn't any notification that there was one ticket left. As I continued to the ticket it increased from $426 to $475. I continue to book the flight because I didn't have time to do any further research for cheaper flights. By the time I booked the flight not only was I charged $475 which included taxes but it took another $16 from my card as a separate transaction. On my bill ithe itinerary shows me getting a discount of $17 but they took $16. When I called to inquire they stated it was for taxes. Hell how much taxes are you allowed to charge?!?!?!

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Try it its worth it
October 13, 2016

I will use again and again this cheapoair to fly business and leisure

Date of experience: October 12, 2016
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Cancel
October 5, 2016

I called to cancel my flight this airline was not helpful at all, they said my ticket was non refundable. I told the lady I had purchased insurance for cancellation she then inform me unless it was life threatening emergency my insurance would not cover, I told her that it did not specified which reasons for canceling they would accept, after calling the insurance agency that I paid 19.90 for they told me I would not get a refund both cheap air and the insurance protection plan are thieves! How dare they do this to customers they should not be in business. I give them no stars but its making me select one

Date of experience: October 5, 2016
Florida
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Vacation
July 25, 2016

This is the best website to buy airlines tickets, you will not get a better price anywhere else.

Date of experience: July 25, 2016
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Scam
July 13, 2016

I submitted a flight - they provided a booking number - no confirmation sent to email - no way to see if my flight was booked - when I called they didn't have my booking - my credit card was charged
What a total scam - please tell everyone - I should have read the reviews first
I feel so sick - I was booking for my child

Date of experience: July 13, 2016
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Don't use this site. It doesn't work properly
Also seleted my airline seats. Then get to the airport and they have no record of them.
They also don't price match anyone. I'd say just use a better site bc this one needs a lot of work

Date of experience: July 1, 2016
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have been looking for cheap flights I could afford for awhile and cheap air gave me exact that. I got to choose my seat on both flights going and coming. Different planes but the dates and airports I wanted, and that's just fine. Thank you cheap air.

Date of experience: June 28, 2016
California
24 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Rude Customer Service
April 21, 2016

I called for an upgrade quote to my ticket. The customer rep Ariane was rude, and argumentative. He kept saying that people are scamming for upgrades. You need to screen your employees better, and the whole experience turned me off from buying anything from cheap air.

Date of experience: April 21, 2016
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Don't Use CheapAir
April 4, 2016

How incredibly bad is Cheap Air? I waited 22 minutes to re-book a flight. Had to pay a penalty and then they booked the wrong flight! Now I'm waiting again... going on 15 minutes. No response. Tried changing on line and they said they couldn't. The site is a joke. Last time I use them.

Date of experience: April 4, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Easy going
March 31, 2016

My first time using this business and I will be using it from now on to book all my flights

Date of experience: March 30, 2016

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Founded in 1989
Calabasas, California, United States