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CheapOair

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CheapOair Reviews Summary

The company has established a strong reputation for its user-friendly platform and competitive pricing, with many customers praising the efficiency of the booking process and the helpfulness of customer service representatives. However, some concerns have been raised regarding communication issues, particularly related to flight changes and refunds, leading to frustration among users. While the majority of feedback highlights a positive experience, instances of delayed support and difficulties in correcting booking errors suggest areas for improvement. Overall, the company is viewed as a reliable option for budget-conscious travelers, yet it must enhance its customer service responsiveness.

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2,784
value
3,012
shipping
2,768
returns
323
quality
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Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I would suggest to any friend, family member or future consumer to NOT use this website to book any travel plans. I booked an airline for travel. Called to inquire about a possible travel date change & price. While speaking with the agent before I officially confirmed ANY change I was disconnected. The agent changed the flight without a confirmation and charged my credit card. Customer service was poor. I asked to speak with a supervisor and I was placed on hold for 45 minutes only to be told they would listen to the recording & have someone call me with in 24 hours. A representative never called. I had to pay an additional amount to correct the unauthorized change back to the original travel dates.
I am a professional in a customer service industry and would never consider arguing with a customer or not following up with.

Date of experience: March 25, 2016
Maine
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Booked a hotel four months in advance because it said no cancellation fee, so I figured if I needed to make a change no big deal. I actually paid a HIGHER rate so that I could have free cancellation up to 24 hours prior to booking. One month later, (three months before the travel date) I had to cancel because I ended up having a class that day. I called and they will cancel it but I incur a $40 fee for cancelling, even though I PAID FOR THE NO CANCELLATION FEE PROTECTION PLAN. They wouldn't do anything for me except charge my credit card a $40 fee, which they had on record so I couldn't do anything about it. STAY FAR AWAY! On a side note, I never received an email confirmation of my booking so I emailed them about 6-7 times over the span of three weeks, NEVER got a response. Ever. Called their number, was on hold for a lifetime, the recording kept saying to go to the website and email and get a response "within a few hours". That's crap. They don't respond. And don't keep their promises, either. STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: March 25, 2016
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I purchased a ticket with Willy. He confirmed with me by phone and by his COMPANY MAIL the cancellation condition. However Cheapoair never respects that commitment. I left messages, via different ladies and gentlemen, many times to Willy but he never call me back. I asked to talk with the supervisor but they let me waiting on the phone for 01 hour and 15 minutes then my phone had no more battery. Very disappointed!.

Can you call me? You have me phone number in my file.My booking number is 32 82 43 06.

Date of experience: March 24, 2016
California
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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AVOID Chapoair
March 26, 2016

My family and I are planning an overseas trip. We found good prices on for flights on Korean Airline on Cheapoair. So we made reservations. We want to sit together as a family, but Cheapoair has a high fee to reserve seats. I tried calling Korean Air since we are part of their frequent flier program. Korean Air said that Cheapoair did not process the reservation. So I call Cheapoair (the first of several calls). First, I have to listen to the insurance sales pitch. Then I'm offered a cheaper price for seat reservations ($14.95 per seat). But the issue about the reservation with Korean is unresolved. I get transferred to a manager who tells me the price of the ticket has gone up. I refuse to pay more and he drops the price increase. He tells me he just confirmed the reservation with Korean. So I call Korean Air back. The reservations are still not confirmed. I call CheapoAir again (long hold time, insurance sales pitch...). In one conversation, the representative tells me the flight is confirmed, I can reserve seats at no charge, I can reserve seats at a cost of $14.95 per seat and, finally, I can't reserve seats at all. I became so concerned with the company's lack of competence, I felt it was best to pay the $25 cancellation fee for fear that I would show up at the airport with no flight reservations.

Date of experience: March 23, 2016
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My ex-husband told me about Cheapoair, so I used them to book a flight to Puerto recently. When my son and I arrived at the airport we obtain our tickets at the kiosk and then checked in our luggage and waited to board the plane. The transaction went through seamlessly and we had no issues using their service. I would definitely use them again and refer them to friends and family! :)

Date of experience: March 22, 2016
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My husband and I were booking a flight to visit his family in Monterrey, Mexico for Christmas time. We saw the flights that we wanted in early December and the flights were going so quickly with the good rates on the cheapoair.ca website that we had to call them because we were having difficulty booking the flight. We told them the cost that it was online, the flight number and the times of the flights. We explained what the price was online and he said that he would book it for us. He booked it for us and charged us that price in US dollars instead of in Canadian dollars like we quoted on the phone. This was our first time booking through cheapoair and we have had a horrible experience dealing with this ever since. My husband and our baby got sick right before Christmas Day with the flu and we had to cancel our flight. We sent in doctor's documents and they said those were not sufficient, so we asked our doctor to write a more detailed note. We received a service charge back but were never given the difference between the flights. Now that we want to go see my husband's family for Easter, we are having so much trouble. We have to book with United we were told and all the United flights are so much more expensive and have so many connecting flights. We will have to pay even more money just to be able to go see my husband's family. This is the worst experience we have had in purchasing flights to Mexico and we fly to Mexico often ( at least twice a year). The customer service is horrible! We have been emailing and calling cheapoair billings department and talking to agent after agent. I wonder if the CEO knows that his/her company is being run this way. We will never book through this website again and will definitely tell all of our family and friends to never book with them either. What a terrible experience! Completely exhausting!

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
CustomerService C. CheapOair Rep
over a year old

The rules of the airline are mandated and we must follow them. The ticket is only valid on the same airline as purchased with, in this case United. At times they may not be the cheaper airline, but that is the chance you take when purchasing non refundable tickets, and not using them. All travel companies will have the same exchange policies, as well as the airline themselves. Exchange rules are also listed in our terms and conditions.

Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This is a piece of advice for canadians booking with Cheapoair. While you book your flights and you go through the hole purchasing process, the compagny is displaying the price in in canadian dollars. So when you buy the tickets, you are expecting you've been paying in CAN dollars. Yet, they charged my bank the same price but in US dollars. My flights costed me half more and they never want to fixed or to admit that even with screen shots of the transaction.

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
CustomerService C. CheapOair Rep
over a year old

Aline, may of looked on our canadian site first www.cheapoair.ca, but when the time came she booked directly with our US site, www.cheapoair.com. She also had 24 hours from the time she booked to check over her confirmations and contact us if there was a problem so that the booking could of been canceled and refunded. Aline did not call until after the grace period.

Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Wish I had read these reviews before booking through this company. Made a reservation Boston to Paris, after confirming the flight I realized I messed up one of the dates. Called cheap-o and had the date changed at my expense. ( Ok my fault). Receive new conformation with correct times and dates. All is good until I get a call from cheap-o a few hours describing a price increase nearly doubling the initial price. After a 30 minute back and forth they told me no problem, never mind, all is the same as It was. What just happened? Feeling uncomfortable, I went directly to the airlines website and used my locator # to verify the information. Turns out the cheap-o agent, took it upon himself, so I wouldn't have to pay the price increase, changed the times of my departure without updating me about it. Long story short it took hours to convince these people that I was canceling because they baited me with a low fare and switched the price and times without my permission and that they needed to refund my money so I could walk away... make that run away. My best advice is don't use their service. Update: Now days after posting this review I discover I have been charges twice. Once by cheap-o and once by the airline... Time to initiate charge back.

Date of experience: March 16, 2016
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scam
March 18, 2016

I booked a flight with these guys and called them immediately afterwards to fix a typo in a passenger name. They charged me $49 without my authorization in order to make the change, then said they could not undo the charge. I got an email 10 days later saying that my booking had been canceled with no explanation. I called them and they said they couldn't verify my bank info. I know that that was a lie because they successfully charged my card (same card!) for the $49. I had to call them with the Wells Fargo fraud department on the line to get them to refund me that fee. I believe that their plan was to take that money and never attempt to make the reservation I booked.

Date of experience: March 15, 2016
CustomerService C. CheapOair Rep
over a year old

Customer made an error in the name when booked online, our agent did advise there is a fee to make the correction, in which he did agree to. Out come, the $49.00 was refunded as customer's request, and booking canceled.

Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Not responding
March 15, 2016

Booked on Fri, Dec 11,2015 for the flight Tue, Dec 22,2015 in air port the air line people stopped me and they said that they will refund the full amount and they given one letter to me and they said that you will get the refund by your agent and i started calling to cheapoair from 24Dec2015 and till the date i didn't receive any kind of money and my booking no: *******

Date of experience: March 12, 2016
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Stay Away
March 12, 2016

They booked me into Bangkok with 1 hr 45 min. That is not enough time because of luggage pickup delay in and out of customs etc.
It cost me $150 extra because of CheapOair.

Date of experience: March 9, 2016
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I booked a flight for a business trip with this company, i never recieved a call from them and with out telling me they cancelled the flight only for me to call back and get charged $120 more for the same flight WHILE THEY WERE STILL HOLDING MY FIRST PAYMENT after waiting on hold for 30 min then they transfered me again to do a "verification" on my card EVEN THOUGH I WAS JUST CHARGED AGAIN FOR THE SECOND FLIGHT which they say they make 1st time customers do i was ON HOLD for 56 minutes so i called from another line and the guy who was ridiculously rude told me that wait time is normal and theres nothing they can do, ive been traveling for years and buying flights from different sites and have never dealt with a morr unprofessional $#*! backwards company in my life i will never do business with them again! An hour and 30 mins later and still on hold with 2 payments held. Save your time and your money and book with another company.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Day light robbery -
March 11, 2016

Booked a flight from Birmingham to Aberdeen return, on confirmation, I realized that I had made an honest mistake on the return flight (needed to amend my return date), I phoned the customer service (10min after the booking and 48hrs before I was supposed to fly) only to be told the additional charge for the amendment was £227 which was more expensive than the original return ticket, when I told them it was unacceptable and wanted a refund, I was given the usual T&C and that it was not refundable.

So now someone else will get my seat as I can no-longer fly which means they get double profit - for me it's not about the money but rather the principal, it amounts to day light robbery, while I cant fault the staff, the Cheapoair policy is a joke. Penny wise pound foolish... never again will I book through you.

Btw - I went to the airline direct who was willing and refund me the cost of the airline ticket, at least they take customer satisfaction more seriously... I will be booking directly with the airlines in future definitely not Cheapoair... should change your company name to Cheaposervice...

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
CustomerService C. CheapOair Rep
over a year old

The booking the customer purchased the rules of the ticket are non refundable, no changes allowed. The ticket has very restrictive policy due to being an economy ticket, these policies are also mandated by the individual airlines, and does mention in our terms and conditions. Customer booked the flights online, and chose these particular dates. Our escalations team has tried to speak with the customer and has no success. We did leave a call back message, and no call back from the customer to discuss the options.

Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Cancelled tickets!
March 9, 2016

My boyfriend and I purchased tickets to Thailand through Cheapoair and 4 days later they sent us an email saying our booking was cancelled. We had to call them and figure out why. Apparently our credit card wasn't verified so they couldn't go through with the transaction. We called the credit card company and they said no attempt was made to charge the card. Unfortunately, the ticket fares went up and we had to pay over $200 more for the EXACT SAME flight. They should have been more accommodating. The supervisor that we talked to said he would "refund" our seat reservation fee. Instead, they cancelled it completely and left us with no seats. We had to call them at least 5 times, numerous transfers and confusing conversations. All for more expensive tickets and precious wasted time. I will not be booking with Cheapoair again. HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. BEWARE.

Date of experience: March 6, 2016
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Cheapoair deducted twice from my banking account for the same transaction. Only offered my a verbal apology. I now have to wait 7-14 business days for funds to be credited back to my account. I've never had any business do such crazy mess with my account.

Date of experience: March 5, 2016
California
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Bate and switch
March 5, 2016

Booked a flight at a fair price, one week later I received a cancellation email at 1AM due to none verification. Spoke with customer service and supervisor for over an hour only to receive "sorry sir." They wanted to charge me an addition $350+ dollars to re-book the exact same flight. After reading some reviews/comments which look to have been attempted to remove, it seems like a common practice for CheapOair to offer a price ONLY to cancel due to "verification" issue and then want more money to re-book; a common illegal bate and switch scheme. Any bank verification is handled by my bank and I receive a text for any fraudulent activity. I am highly discouraged and disappointed with CheapOair and how they conduct themselves. Their customer service is outsourced and doesn't seem to convey any empathy or sympathy for the heartache they cause.

Date of experience: March 2, 2016
Illinois
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great deals
March 1, 2016

We have booked 2 quick get aways in the last year & the price for flight & room were GREAT. I will definitely use them again.

Date of experience: February 27, 2016
Yaron S.
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Best service
February 29, 2016

I've reserved a flight through cheapoair and the servic is fantastic. It is high recommended to work with this website.

Date of experience: February 25, 2016
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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NO BUENO!
February 28, 2016

WHEN MAKING YOUR RESERVATION GET SOMEONE THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND!
GET THEIR NAME AGE AND POSSIBLE THEIR SS#. ENDED PAYING DOUBLE!

Date of experience: February 25, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I booked a flight with my credit card through their website. At the end of the process, after I gave my card number, a messsage popped up saying the price had gone up by 50 bucks or so. Choice is to accept the new price or search for a different flight. I tried to book a different flight,,, same result,, and two more times, same result. Immediately, I received a call from one of their reps offering a more expensive flight which I declined. I checked the website again the following day and the prices of those same flights stayed the same. So obviously, this their racket; publishing good prices for flights which are NOT TRUE, and then they will try to sell you REAL ones at REAL prices. I don't know if this practice is unlawful, if not, it is definitely unethical, deceptive way to run a business. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. Buy your tickets from reliable names like, orbitz, Travelocity, etc. NOTE: Only reason I gave one star is because it is not possible to give Zero stars.

Date of experience: February 24, 2016

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