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CheapOair allows travelers to easily access multiple quotes from hundreds of hotels, airlines, cruise lines and car rental companies to ensure that each customer finds a deal that best accommodates their travel needs. CheapOair strives to provide the best customer service to help customers through the booking experience.

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  • Nonrefundable tickets and fares

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    Reviewed July 21, 2016

    Considering that I'm not very computer smart it went very well. Was too sure at times what prompts to do but I think I succeeded booking my journey. Your reps on the phone are very courtesy and helpful.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 21, 2016

    I booked a flight to Germany with CheapOair. I received an email with the flight details, and clicked on the link for seat assignments in that email. The page I got to showed a few unassigned seats. I clicked on one, then suddenly saw my ticket price increase by $107.77! Looking more carefully I noticed that the seat I selected was an "XL seat" which comes at an extra charge. Without any confirmation CheapOair charged me the $107.77 without a way to revert that seat assignment.

    When I called they put me on hold - forever. Then I tried the chat and ended up with Reid **, who told me the seat assignment cannot be reverted and the charge was already processed. There would be no way to get a refund. This gotta be a bad joke! This kind of processing is certainly not legal in CA. I called the airline and they said the charge is certainly refundable, but CheapOair would have to call in to request cancellation of the charge. The agent I talked to was obviously not willing to do that.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 21, 2016

    Wish booking over phone could give discount codes when received but deleted from email. Otherwise, excellent service.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed July 21, 2016

    I bought 4 two-ways tickets to fly from the US to Europe; the 4 return tickets were cancelled. I am entitled to most of the government and airport tax fees for the return leg of this trip on 4 tickets. The airline holds this money and will release it upon an email from CheapOair making the request on my behalf. CheapOair bought the tickets on my behalf (as mention on CheapOair terms and conditions web page). However after multiple phone conversations with CheapOair representatives, whom most agreed an email is not much to do and I should be getting MY money back, I have been unable to find resolution. I have been told to email the CheapOair billing department, which I did 3 times already. Unfortunately, the billing department does not seem to respond EVER. I have been advise now to find a class action against CheapOair. Do you have any advice on how to resolve this issue of getting CheapOair to send ONE email on my behalf?

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    Reviewed July 20, 2016

    Getting airfare to Lima, Peru was easy and was handled very well. I would recommended them to anyone that was traveling by air to any place.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2016

    The name of the company says it all. They are like a cars salesman. You are better off booking through the original aircraft company. At least you can change flight times with no hassle or extra money. Insurance is written on toilet paper for all it's good for. Can't believe the good reviews on here. Suspicious to me.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffProcess

    Reviewed July 20, 2016

    Initial booking online was straightforward, quick and cheap. I needed to change my tickets and was not expecting it to be easy, however, I was most pleasantly surprised. Quick phone pick up both times I called - no long waits! First call was to get general information and second call was to make the actual change. Both agents were extremely helpful in searching best options and pricing and very clear in their delivery of information. The process was fast and completed via email while still on the phone. Changed, paid and confirmation in hand in speedy time. Very impressive and I will definitely use site again and recommend to others. Thanks again!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I had purchased a round trip ticket to Miami and back to DC. When I received the confirmation number, I found the return through BWI, Maryland different from what I planned. I called the CheapOair number and one very kind, helpful lady helped me to keep my return to DC airport. It took her only five minutes to solve my problem. Many thanks to that lady.

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    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I needed to amend my flight back from LA to CLE and found I had to book a different ticket with a different airline in order to keep the return affordable. CheapO helped me do this without a problem except one glaring one: I was NOT advised that on SPIRIT AIRLINE one has to pay for all bags and absolutely ahead of time in order to have the total fare remain reasonable. Not until I am at the gate on the second leg from Las Vegas to CLE am I made aware -- I PAY THRU THE NOSE in order to get home. AWFUL!! Not sure I will use CheapO again and certainly not SPIRIT!

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    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I'm very disappointed with CheapOair's insurance policy. When I purchased my travel insurance I asked the representative if it would be cover under the policy to change or cancel my flight, and he encouraged me to get the insurance being that my work schedule is crazy and might need to cancel my flight. A week before my flight I call customer service to change my flight and of course the woman tells me that I will be charged a $140 airline fee and another fee and pay the difference between the tickets. I asked her what the point of the insurance was and she simply says "for emergencies". While the site offers great deals, be careful with the travel insurance. I am extremely frustrated and feel like I was fooled. At the end of the day I had to cancel my flight and book another flight through a different travel site. This all costed me way more and would of less of a hassle and money if I just used a more reliable company.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I had bought a ticket with a 6 hours layover when I happened to find another one with only 2.5 hours layover in Paris. I called CheapOair and the matter was resolved easily and with a very nice representative.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    Service that I received was great. I am really happy with it. Thanks.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    Had a great experience booking my flight for my mom and me and I got it at a great price! Will tell all of my friends and family. The lady I spoke to was very helpful and did a great job. I wish I wrote her name down. Made the whole experience very easy and she was very patient and answered all of my questions.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I entered in my date of departure and airport. The first price was within my budget. I entered all my charge information as per instructed. The congratulation/confirmation page, however, showed a different date of departure AND a different departure airport than what I had requested. So I called and spoke to an agent who spoke fast and with and accent. I had to have him repeat what he was saying. He booked another flight, double the price and then I discovered he had the departure city wrong AGAIN! It will take 7-14 business days for my refund! I will be avoiding CheapOair in the future and will advise my friends to do likewise.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    Loved talking with the man that booked our flight! He was a hoot!!! We will be using you all again.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    Davio is the BEST agent I have ever dealt with.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    Look to book a flight to Sacramento Ca, I saw a fare for 347.00 one way. Went to book it and it change to 585.00. I call and was told that I should have book it. I said that I try to do that and he said that it was the only seat, but could book me for 855.00. One way. I said, "Are you out of your mind." Also you are calling overseas. I just call the airline and was able to get a flight for 410.00.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    In the rare occasion you have no issues, but rare, perhaps a decent experience. If, however, if you questions, problems or any sort, you will be sorry you wasted your time and money. Rep gave me wrong information regarding passport/visa for travel booking. Finally was able to resolve after months and confirmed a refund (which I forwarded and also spoke about) for change ticket fare. I have the email, which doesn't state any expirations. I tried to re-book within the year and they flat out refused to refund anything. Buyer beware and don't use these fools. NEVER AGAIN!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    I booked my ticket with an agent on 7/15/2016. It was for 4 members of my family. The agent did 2 separate booking. One booking cost $368.20 and the other one $438.20. A difference of $70.00. I was assured that after the agent spoke to his supervisor about the price difference, he was going to call me the next day, and made me believe that the lower price will be take in effect. The agent never call me and when I called the next day, it was a different agent that told me that my flights were booked. I am asking for the difference of $70.00. Since we are traveling together, I do not see any reason why we should have different prices. We are flying back on August 20, our ticket cost the same price. Thank you for your understanding.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2016

    DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM, BOOK DIRECTLY WITH AIRLINE. They will never accept responsibility for their mistakes because they are not big enough to be able to afford it. ANY changes, whether due to yours or their mistake will cost you hundreds of dollars. Long story short, they tried to ask us for $350 extra (for a fully paid flight) after their own technical difficulty which caused the flight to be canceled. Details below:

    Wasted 2 hrs on phone call. Canceled our return flight without notifying us. Kept all of our money, didn't try to pay us back for canceled flight (I'm sure they would keep a good percentage of it if you tried to cancel it and get money back). Tried to avoid responsibility by blaming the airline. Insisted that we were a no show, we made the flight and made the destination. Try to tell me or any of the TSA cameras that we didn't make the flight. Try me one more time, I'm flustered just thinking about this experience. Somehow explained that we were still reserved for the return flight, so they could reinstate it (yay!)

    Reinstatement cost of $350: EXCUSE ME??? (how can you tell me you canceled my flight, somehow it is still reserved under my name, but you still want more money from me to get my fully paid for flight back??? Tell me more about how that makes sense. Actually, don't bother, because your agents just turn in circles trying to explain absolutely nothing). Anyways, just avoid third-party booking sites. Seriously. The tax and other costs were almost just as much as the ticket itself, so it would have been cheaper to just book from the airline.

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    CoveragePrice

    Reviewed July 17, 2016

    To change 1 flight 3 days cost almost as much as the ticket even though the ticket was insured.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 16, 2016

    These people are crooks of the worst kind. I purchased insurance for a flight I had to cancel that was actually invalid. When trying to book a new flight, I was on hold for an eternity and finally gave up prior to booking my flight. The representatives are all Indians who can barely speak English and don't understand 50% of what you tell them. This site advertises low fares to suck people in and then doesn't deliver. Whatever you do, don't book your flights from CheapOair.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 16, 2016

    Booked a trip from Vegas to Austin, they charged my card and gave me the WRONG flights, they booked me backwards, called them number of times finally when I got on hold with them after 30 mins of waiting on the phone they told me that they will correct it and they didn't. I had to contact my bank to reverse the charge since the trip is all WRONG. They just want to give me a quarter of my money back not knowing why, it was their mistake and not mine. They booked me from Austin to Vegas even when I called right away after I saw the email with the WRONG itinerary!!! These people are the worst people to book flights, please don't use them. They will take your money away!!!

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    Reviewed July 16, 2016

    I was completely satisfied with the service I received during my phone call to book my trip. This is the 3rd time in 5 years I have used CheapOair and have had great service all 3 times. I recommend them to all of my friends and family. It is so nice in this age of online bookings to be able to call and get a person to help with the details. Keep up the good work!

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 16, 2016

    I had an excellent experience with the individual who booked my flight. I had to change several aspects as we went along and I felt like the representative that handles my case was very patient and sensitive to my needs. I really appreciate his efforts and I would recommend him to anyone. My overall experience with CheapOair is excellent above average. I talked about you guys a lot to family and friends.

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    Reviewed July 16, 2016

    The couple of times that I have booked through CheapOair has been a very pleasant experience. Agents have been extremely friendly and accommodating. That being said, this time - however - the agent left me on 'almost' terminal hold (at least it seemed like that, it was a pretty lengthy time) before he came back after booking my flight. Other than that, I am very happy working with you.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 15, 2016

    Company found the best fare for my choices of day and time. Service was prompt and friendly.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    I had a good experience this time with the representative who helped me change my itinerary. She listened carefully to what I need and asked very good questions and came back with results and asked if that works for me and confirmed with me that this is exactly what I need. She even hinted about something that I didn't notice and helped me out with it.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    This is the very first time I have booked with CheapOair and I must say that all the men I spoke to were wonderful to me, very helpful. I would tell any one of my friends to book with your company. It was a pleasure doing my booking with your company.

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    Coverage

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    The Company cheapoair.com, AKA "Fareportal Inc." offers insurance policies to customers that are exploitative, and abusive. My wife and I needed to cancel a flight to Italy for two reasons: she was in the hospital for a hernia, and also because of issues with the Department of Immigration. She was then becoming a citizen. We purchased cheapoair.com's travel insurance. They would only allow us to alter the date of the flight, but we could not cancel. We were going to Italy for work, however, we missed the convention due to the aforementioned issues. The company sent us through loops and forced us to go back and forth between the airline, insurance and the company who we purchased the ticket from (https://www.cheapoair.com/).

    After several months of deliberation, difficult paperwork, and literally 7 hours of exhausting conversation the claim was denied. The reason the claim was denied by CheapOair was that despite having purchased the tickets and insurance from them the reasons given in our claim were inadequate. How could a medical emergency, compounded with Visa issues be inadequate? CHEAPOAIR STILL OWES MY WIFE AND I NEARLY $2000. They operate on a kind of triad that makes it nearly impossible for the customer to resolve an issue; website, airline, and insurance. None of which want to be the one responsible for reimbursing the customer. Therefore the customer feels defeated, and frustrated, gives up, and they keep the money. Do not do business with this company. Their business practices are exploitative, abusive, and truly immoral.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    I booked a flight using CheapOair for a family vacation. I ran into an issue online and called customer support to help with booking. I was charged extra money to be able to select my seats so my husband, myself and our 3-year-old child can seat together. I was OK with that since sitting together on all the flights was important to us. Customer support rep ended up charging me over 150 dollars for seat assignment. On the day of our trip I tried to check in and it showed me that all 3 of us were sitting on opposite ends of the airplane on EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT, including the 3-year-old whose seat was nowhere near me or my husband. Thankfully the agent was able to make it happen so at least one of us was sitting with our son. I am completely outraged that I was charged so much money for something that the company didn't deliver. I will NEVER book with CheapOair again. They are liars.

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    PricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    This was a great experience! I had a flight to Cleveland but it would not arrive until midnight. I needed to get there before 4:00. Your agent helped me find a flight that got me there on time and was much less expensive. I don't fly much so I had to ask a lot of question. The agent was patience, polite and professional at all times. The attitude of your agent plus the savings on the flight has made me speak of you in glowing terms to my friends and family. I will definitely use CheapOair for all my future flights. Great job!!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    Natasha was helpful, professional and saved us some $s.

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    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    Had a great experience and will continue to use this service.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    I have worst experiences with them so far. I looked over prices online then called in order to book flight. Reps lied to me saying that online info is not updated and they have access to more recent info that shows the flight is almost full and the price is higher too. This is when I am looking at the web while talking to them. SO they charged me more than online price. However when I searched again the flight had plenty of room and the price was less and I could easily book for another family members.

    I called in and asked for price match, they refused to do so. I have heard from friends too that DO NOT call them. They lie to you and charge you more instead of helping. NO USA customer services. So if you are lucky and find good deal, book online and stay away from calling. Also make sure there is NO refund whatsoever.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2016

    After trying to find a very specific flight, I was disallowed from purchasing based on seat availability. A customer support specialist (Harmony) called me and was able to find me a useful flight. I then made a mistake and was again aided by someone (Augustus) and found my perfect flight. This level of support is difficult to find. I remain appreciative.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    Called numerous times for a refund on a paid seat. First I was told to call the airline that I will be using to travel, I called the airline and they said the purchase was made on CheapOair so the refund will come from them. I called back to get a refund and was given a number to call by a cheapoair agent. The number goes straight to a cell phone voicemail. I called back a 3rd time and Anthony at CheapOair said we will have to put in a request with the airline and see if it gets approved. I called the airline only to find out they don't deny or approve seating refunds but they stated of the purchase was made on their website they will refund it immediately but because the transaction was made on cheapoair there was nothing they could do.

    I called CheapOair for the 4th time and was told by Danny that I was lying and there is no refund. All sales are final. Don't do business with these crooks. They will give you the run around and waste your time. I will never do business with cheapoair again. I highly recommend that none of you go through them. They will make you regret it quickly!!!

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    Mike was refunded the Traveler assist of $13.95 which is our fee for booking the seats. But the passenger actually booked a premium seat on AA airlines, which goes directly to them, therefore we could not refund that and passenger appears to have sat in the preferred seat because we don't show it was ever canceled. This was not a charge we did but the customer selected it at the time of booking.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    Fine, professional Agent... Knowledgeable and very helpful.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    This is regarding booking made on March 22, 2016 for a return flight on September 4th 2016. The return flight had a connecting flight wait time of 4 hours and at the time I made the decision to purchase. Today, they send an email with a notice of change in the return flight to one with an 18 hour connecting flight time. In the email they ask for a confirmation that you accept the changes however they also make it sound like it's your only option or else I would risk losing the whole value of the ticket! CheapOair when contacted say that this is not their fault. Really? I agreed to pay CheapOair money based on a certain itinerary they promised. Then they turned around and made changes and say I have no other option?

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    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    This is regarding booking made on May 11th 2016 for a return flight on September 6th 2016. The return flight had a connecting flight wait time of 4 hours and the the time I made the decision to purchase. Today, they send an email with a notice of change in the return flight to one with an 18 hour connecting flight time. In the email they ask for a confirmation that you accept then changes however they also make it sound like it's your only option or else I would risk losing the whole value of the ticket!

    CheapOair air when contacted say that this is not their fault. Really? I agreed to pay CheapOair money based on a certain itinerary they promised. Then they turned around and made changes and say I have no other option?? I also have a friend whom purchased 4 tickets for same flight and he has his elderly father and young 8-month old child and he is going through same thing.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    Your customer service was excellent. One thing which I noticed was that when I contacted, the price of the ticket was $105.00, but during booking it went up to $129.00 per ticket and had to pay $48.00 more on the two tickets.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & SpeedOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    I have had a paid booking through CheapOair for approx 6 months. In that time I have had approx 5 or 6 small schedule changes of 10 or 20 mins until the last one which I received 10 days from travel. My complaint and comments about Cheapoair are as follows.

    1. I paid 6 months ago for business and premium economy and now I have been bumped down to economy on two legs without any form of compensation. 2. There is no mechanism for you to address concerns formally with Cheapoair. They will not put you onto supervisors and they will not put you through to a manager or someone you can complain to. They simply ignore all such requests and keep silent or talking.

    3. They try to rush and push you into making changes which I can assume only benefit them and or the airlines. A flight was cancelled. There was another flight on the same leg with the same airline just 10 mins later. Rather than put us [my family] onto the flight 10 mins later they suggest I fly a day earlier on the prior leg stay over night [I would have to organise and pay for all transfers and accommodation] and take a flight the next morning four hours earlier than our original flight.

    Even when I find the flight 10 mins later than our original cancelled flight they then try to force me to take a flight 4 hours later which would have required us to have a 7-hr stop over after traveling for 20 odd hours. The fact that I have paid accommodation and organised people to meet us at our final destination and have a long trip and have paid for business and premium economy is completely irrelevant. In short, they do not act for their customer, they act for CheapOair and the airlines ONLY. They don't care about their customer and what is best for them.

    4. They are practiced in misleading and deceptive conduct. I have found them lying to me on numerous occasions. First they said to me I have to take the much earlier flight or later flight because the new flight 10 mins after my cancelled flight did not have premium economy but the earlier and later ones did. Not true. None of them had premium economy. Actually in my checking other premium economy flights have also been changed to economy without them saying a word. I have to google and check and then challenge them. They only admit the truth after you really push.

    5. I will give them that they will answer the phone and or call you. In my case I have made or received 9 phone calls over three days totaling 180 mins. They have rung me at 11.30 pm. I go to bed early and wake early. I then had to ring them back twice and was up until 2 am trying to get them to book me on the flight 10 mins after our original flight time.

    6. They don't follow instructions. 5 or 6 times I have said to them book me on the flight 10 mins after when I was scheduled to travel. And each time they said they will need to e-mail the airline and get back to you. 7. They have and publish that you should/can ring the airlines directly. But when I did and also spent hours on hold or with well meaning airline staff it went to the same place... "This can only be ticketed by Cheapoair, we can not change it!" Wasting my time for no reason and also very rude and frustrating.

    I feel sorry for the employees in India. They loyally and very patiently follow a script they know or would suspect is ** and can only I assume have an underlying "profit for CheapOair" motive. They are polite. Never again. I have learnt my lesson. I will however use their website via google adverts to find good connections, but would I book through them again, very unlikely. This has been quite a lesson.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    I recently booked a flight from Maine to Ft Lauderdale with CheapOair.com. Something came up and had to change my return date. The man who I dealt with from customer service was very unhelpful. They wanted over $600 for a 1-way flight from Ft Lauderdale back to Maine - one way! My round trip was that much! I instead just booked my own return through someone else for $425 and took a loss on this flight. I travel a lot and will never use them again.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    Renewed my passport for the flight on the 13th of July, but due to Canada Post problems my passport won't be in on time. So I purchased the travel protection plan before knowing so and it didn't cover anything like it advertises. So they offered me $50 to cancel with a credit of $264 but when I go to use the credit it's still a $200 rebooking fee. So what's the point? So I called one last time at headquarters in NY and they told me all flights are non-refundable... So what's the point of the Travel protection plan? Plus they made me purchase another Travel insurance saying it would get my money back which it didn't... So I called the BBB due to my runaround with CheapOair for false advertising and lack of assistance and scamming me with no options to get the flight swapped or money back. I highly Recommend looking for other flight companies that work with their clientele fairly.

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    Price

    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    When I tried to book a trip I found out the ticket was already sold. They were very helpful with finding another flight for me for only $80.00 more. Will use again because they have the best prices!

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    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    In Nov I was looking for a flight and saw a very reason price on CheapOair but was only available by phone. I called and talked to a person who hardly could speak English. He booked a flight even though I had doubts that the time between the national and international flights was sufficient. But he gave me no other option and pressured me into purchasing this flight. Later that same day I talked to friends and they agreed with me that an hour between flights was not enough time. I called CheapOair within 24 hrs. Asked to speak with the same person, whom I had asked his name, and was told that this person was not available. And that there would be a charge for changing my flight. This second person was helpful and better informed. I complained about having to pay the fee for changing my flight, for I feel it was not my fault, and was told it was policy.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    After initially picking the wrong date for **, Anna helped us out perfectly well and efficiently by phone making the needed changes. Great help, and it couldn't have been done more effectively. Just a pity of the extra fees as we contacted you within a few hours. Still a good job!

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    Price

    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    Service was great, the price for a round trip ticket was beyond belief. My only problem was that I had to book twice for whatever reason and each time my first name was misspelled although I phonetically spelled it more than once. So where is the attention to detail there, will this affect at boarding? Not sure. Hopefully because the last name is spelled correctly. Maybe I won't get hassled?

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    Reviewed July 11, 2016

    My mother lives in another country and gave me two days notice to be there for surgery. We scoured the internet comparing prices and decided to book with Cheapoair. After booking I needed to stay an extra 2 days and for a small change fee Cheapoair were so helpful. They found flights for me and locked everything in. 4 weeks later I needed to return again and I could not find anything reasonable online. I almost purchased a flight but the price went up right before I clicked. Cheapoair called ME 5 minutes later to find flights in my budget. I had to change the dates a bit, but they worked. I have never ever heard of a website spontaneously calling a customer to assist with booking and pricing. Cheapoair is one of a kind. Highly recommend.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    Bisalia was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. However, the price seemed to fluctuate as we spoke. Fortunately, Bisalia and I were able to arrive at a common understanding.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    This is a very reliable agency, has a great customer service. You can reach them at any time by phone or online chat or even by email. I have experienced it when me and my family had already booked a flight and at the last moment one of us couldn't go in the same date and I contacted them and they arranged to change the ticket for a later date and yesterday, there was a mistake with one of the passenger's gender. I just made 1 phone call and in less than 3 minutes everything was arranged.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    Mark was the second person I had called, thinking I was calling a different company than CheapOair, as the fellow I got at the CheapOair site was not very good. I also could not understand him very well. When I called the number on a different website, Mark answered. He was extremely helpful, very patient and ended up helping me make our tickets as well as my sister and brother-in-law's tickets. He followed up with a call this morning to see if we wanted to make any changes.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    Twice now have had issues. Once got left at the airport without ticket. Second time charged me three times with international fees which came to about 270$ and no one can answer me. Put down a 31 hours flight as 19 hours. Left me waiting in international airports for hours. Seriously the worst.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    We purchased travel tickets back in February for May. The price seemed right. During the course of three months itinerary was changed twice which was very annoying because the trip was multi city and everything got messed up. After the first part of the trip was completed they cancelled one of the tickets of the second half and refused to refund. Very rude guy told me that I can cancel the entire half of the trip and I can get reimbursed. When I told him that it is very expensive to buy last minute ticket on international travel he said it was not his business. He cancelled one of the tickets and we had to purchase second ticket ourselves having already paid for it twice. After all he cancelled the other tickets because he was angry with me that I could not make up my mind.

    Customer service is horrible. I assume it was some call center in India and they had 0 customer service skills. Rude and obnoxious. After all battle and losing a ticket plus paying another 178 dollars for new one they did not change the itinerary after all and my husband was told in Istanbul that he is late. After 3 hour battle he was given new ticket. I want my cancelled ticket refund, my price paid for new ticket and reimbursement for wasted time, messed up itinerary and aggravation.

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    Reviewed July 9, 2016

    Everything was fine in booking my flight to Chicago.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    A gentleman was very patient with me and helped me get the dates I needed for my flights then he passed me off to a woman who worked with me to get a motel in the area I wanted. Your staff members were awesome. Thank you.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    Took care of getting my reservation made and was very professional and helpful.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    I paid extra for Premium Economy on all five flights. However, when I tried to make seat selections, I was advised by the carrier that the only flights having premium economy were the two transatlantic legs. Your agent advised that the seat selections probably won't be available for a couple more months. Don't understand this since I was able to do this on the two transatlantics. If I can't get premium economy seats on the three short flights, I want a refund of the amount paid for this on these flights.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    I've now booked twice through CheapOair, first hesitantly because the name didn't exactly inspire confidence. But I have had flawless service both times, including easy communication access, useful suggestions and with their toll-free international number was able to lower the price on my latest booking beyond what is offered online. They send far more frequent promo offers than I would like, but I'm perfectly capable of deleting, and when I need what they're offering, I'm very glad I received it.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    As I requested on the person who did my reservation, I was promised that I will get the requested billing and invoice within 3 hours but sad to say, days has passed and I never received it.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    I bought the ticket through the CheapOair.com, and I realize I did not add my middle name. Hence I talked with the Customer Service, and there are no way to change the name on the issued ticket even I still have 7 days left. The only way is to cancel the current airplane ticket and buy it one more time. Finally they charge me the penalty $250 for the CheapOair Policy, plus additional Charge for the 250 for cancellation fees from airline. Therefore eventually I lost $500 to add only my middle name. What the hell service is? I never use CheapOair.

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    Reviewed July 7, 2016

    My experience with CheapOair has been horrible. My wife received a call almost a month ago informing us that our flights have been canceled. We have been calling CheapOair every 4 days asking how we can get a refund for these canceled flights. The answers have been the same: "Please call back in 2-4 days". There have been multiple times where we were put on hold then hung up on. This has been the worst experience with any 3rd party flight booking site I have ever had. My hope is to make customers aware of my experience in hopes that this never happens to anyone else.

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    Reviewed July 7, 2016

    I had a hard time understanding the young man to start, but it got better. Very mannerly and helpful. Thank you.

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    Reviewed July 7, 2016

    I have dealt with CheapOair twice now and have been very pleased.

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    Reviewed July 7, 2016

    I'm very satisfied with the services I received from CheapOair and the attention of all the agencies. They help me. Thanks.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2016

    I booked my vacation five days ago. I received an email today saying that my card was declined. I have more than enough money to cover charges. I'm on my third transfer to say why my card was declined 5 days after purchase. I'm 30 mins on hold so far. It's a last minute trip and I am very stressed out. Not worth the $50 bucks I saved. Never again.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2016

    Flight and hotel - Everyone was very nice and got me thru this crazy experience.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2016

    I am disappointed that you charged me an additional $25 for changing my flight with the 24 hours purchase. I frankly did not realized the departure airport was changed. My original airport of departure was Heathrow. I have bought few trips from you guys and believe I should have not been charge an extra $25. Other than that the service was fine but the agent should have mentioned to me about the extra charge.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    Helped me much including talking to the airline regarding the penalty.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    Since half of February I am trying to receive a refund of 920 USD per person (4 persons so 3680 USD) for a flight that was cancelled. Every time they are saying that is take two rounds of billing, however nothing is coming. When this company needs to pay, they don't show up at all. I would recommend using other companies. It is more expensive than other companies and they really just let you go. Very disappointing.

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    The customer is correct, it does take 1-2 billing cylces to receive a refund when it comes from an airline ticket. Credits are not like you would receive in a store, it's complicated due to the airline accounting process. It would not matter with whom you bought your ticket with, we all report sales, refunds to the same firm ARC.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    June 1, 2016, CheapOair confirmed that a refund will be made to my account in 7-14 business days. I have been calling their Billing dept to see why they are so slow in making a refund and so fast to charge my account! 36 days passed now and I am still calling the Billing department to hear that it would be done soon! I am done with CheapOair!

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    Reviewed July 4, 2016

    I have used CheapOair for at least six trips over the past several years and four within the past year alone. Very rarely have I been so pleased by a service that I felt compelled to comment. Wherever I have travelled overseas, without fail I received updates on flight status and airport advisories on my phone. Whenever I have had a problem with booking a flight, I have received very patient, courteous and competent help from customer service agents by phone. I could not be better served. Thank you!!!

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    Reviewed July 4, 2016

    I called and the customer service was great. They were attentive and really interested in helping me. I am very impressed with this service and I recommend this service to anyone.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2016

    Flight from Williston and to Manila Philippines - Everything worked out OK. Thank you

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    Reviewed July 3, 2016

    Extremely disappointed about their custom specialist service. It's a joke!!! You paid more and got worst. I purchased online couple times and had good experience. But if you need to deal with custom specialist/agent then your nightmare begin. I had an option to cancel the reservation but got little money back. I been convinced to pay more $1360 plus to postpone our flight date and keep about same layover time. Also able to claim with the insurance (travel plane ticket) to get some money back.

    The truth is except you pay the money and nothing like they said. After you paid then they told you the layover hour would be decided by air companies. 1 to 2 additional hours is normal to image the international flight about 19 hours per trip. Then you got 1 more hour layover here and there and you flight with an infant. I told them the situation and the timing requested but this ** still happened. I called them from 6 to 11 pm, they passed ball around. No agent/specialist involves or you are waiting for a nightmare!

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    Reviewed July 2, 2016

    Your correspondence is coming through to Shelby **, one of the other passengers though I did the booking and am paying the bill. Otherwise an excellent experience.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2016

    Flight changes - The customer service was excellent. I had a few dumb questions and she was patient with me throughout the process.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2016

    I thought I had set up the flight through my account, but hadn't. Now the only way I can access the flight is to click from email because the general website asks me to set up an account and then doesn't let me access to my itinerary. It keeps asking me to create an account but does not allow me to link it to my account. It would be nice if my account allowed me to search for the booking number and then ask if I want it added to my account.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2016

    On June 28 I booked a flight thru you on Frontier and on June 30 was notified it was cancelled per an email. I called and was told that my credit card would not accept the charges. This was not true: the credit card told me there were no charges put thru by CHEAPOAIR on that date. I needed to get my flight out to Chicago anytime before July 3rd to the 5th so I was flexible when we discussed my options for rebooking and she gave me some horrible times but that was the only reasonable fares which was already $150 more. I booked it and then got home to my computer within 10 minutes and saw that the fares I wanted was still available the original price but with a return a day earlier which I told her was an option originally. I immediately called CheapOair and was transferred 4 times and waited 20 minutes until I had some help.

    I had a new reservation number for the Frontier booking that I found thru their site and so Jared who was assisting me booked that and then tried to get Spirit to refund me since they essentially lied when they said that this was the only available but Spirit would not. CheapOair also gets you to use them to book the seat assignment and told me that Frontier would charge me $60.00 but they could put it thru their seat request for 14.95 per person. So she charged me $29.90. I went on Frontier's site and was able to get any number of seats from $5 to $18 so that was another lie.

    They also charged me $25.00 because when we went on their website and put in the reservation name it put my name in twice instead of my partners and so we had to do a name change with Frontier and they said that it was Frontier's charge which was not true. It was a glitch in their system when the reservation went thru that it printed the name twice. We had put it in correctly. My total time on the phone was 2 hours and 30 minutes.. Beware... Lots of hidden fees when you book with them... CHEAPOAIR adds on a lot of extra fees.

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    Reviewed July 1, 2016

    After spending A LOT of time looking for a great rate, I found one on CheapOAir... After entering the passenger info and cell phone contact number, the computer told me "session timed out". So I refreshed and found that "4 tickets are STILL available at this price"! I click "purchase" within seconds of the last refresh and then the site told me the price had gone up and tickets were now going to be $200 more each!!! The total had been around $1000 and was now around $1600!!! I said forget that and in the meantime the company was calling on the cell phone to try to get us a deal... That was the biggest scam ever! I was furious.

    There is no way the ticket prices went up in the three seconds it took to click "purchase". The tickets were never there for that price to begin with!!! The agent on the phone was not able to get us anything CLOSE to what we had originally. I ended up purchasing from Southwest and had NO baggage fees, happier with that purchase!!! I will never waste my time again on their website!! NEVER.

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    Reviewed July 1, 2016

    If you sell your company as a "travel agency", I expected you will give me support as any travel agency. However, even though I bought the travel insurance thru you, when there was a problem, your agent said you are only "brokers" of products and that CheapOair was not responsible for helping me out with that issue. If I had bought my ticket thru a regular travel agent, they would have made all the calls to help me out.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    I am writing this first of all to ensure other passengers who are travelling with family don't face the same problem. I booked 4 tickets in Virgin America and made a payment with selected seats and the invoice showed me a bill of 909.$ CA. Later I found I was charged twice from my credit card, first for 834 and then for 123 which sums up to total of 838 which is roughly over 28$ over my invoice stated bill.

    I called them to verify they have refunded me the amount but however I have lost those seats and later I even said I don't want the refund. They said they have issued it already so nothing can be done about it now. They asked me to take the insurance and make a payment of what I am refunded to get my seats back.

    On a note, this is the first and last time of using CheapOair and I have never faced any kind of problem from Expedia or other websites. The authorities must take care of the matter in management.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    I am new to CheapOAir. Perhaps this is routine at CheapOAir but it is uncommon in the marketplace. I messed up my reservations for three flights; totally my fault. I called to get it fixed and Ronnie spent about a half hour with me to fix my mistakes. No cost to me! Completely rebooked all my flights (this time for the right days). I grade this spectacular customer service. Top marks!

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    The agent who dealt with me was very courteous and nice. I will recommend my friends to this site. Thanks again. Not very often you find people take one best interest at heart. I think his name begins with C. He has a heart of gold. Keep up the good works.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    Jasper listened to my problems and 'went to bat' so to speak and REALLY fixed me up and saved me a lot of problems. Keep him and I will use you folks again. Yea Team!!!

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    The good: The flight was on time other than the weather-related delay on the return from Vegas. The staff did a nice job overall. The bad: Seats were uncomfortable, especially for a 4 hour+ flight. In the process of paying extra for my carry-on bag I was not given a receipt in either occasion. I would fly Frontier again weighing all of the above.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    More than 30 days prior to flight I contacted the company to adjust the departure date only for my ticket and my husband. The individual on the line representing your firm spoke very choppy English but he made it clear to me the cost to make this change would be $400.00. I plan to contact the airline direct in order to make this known and hopefully to change our departure date w/o incurring this excessive fee.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    Excellent experience with customer service.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    Vincent was very nice, courteous. Well versed in tracking a flight that would work for us. He was on point!

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    On June 25th I booked three flights to Boston for Nov. 2. The agent I dealt with told me my total with fees, taxes and insurance would be $1,089. He did not say which currency so I thought that would be that amount that came off my VISA. Today I received my VISA bill and see that it was converted to American dollars which makes a total of $14,63.74. I tried to cancel these bookings but was told it had to be done within 24 hours. I didn't know until today that I needed to cancel. Had he told me that when I got my VISA bill it would be in American funds, I would not have made the reservations.

    This booking was for three seniors, on limited incomes, and even $1,089 was expensive for us. I would like to cancel these reservations especially since, even though it is supposed to be CheapOair, I don't consider $14,63.74 that cheap. We are travelling with a group and others have gotten much cheaper rates. I was very happy on Sat. with the price I got and feel the agent was remiss in not mentioning that the fees would show up on my VISA in American funds. Could you cancel these reservations and the insurance? Thank you.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    I am very pleased so far with what I have seen. From the time I contacted CheapOair, to the time my booking confirmation appeared finished on my computer. All the information I would ever need is in front of me. Wow!!! Great job!!

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    Great team efforts and support by riyatravels.ca Team for making my journey successful.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    Your staff was wonderful. Burton and one other guy told me not to worry... I was going to cancel but Burton took over and told me "I will take care of you and your kids..." Impressive.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    I recently used Cheapoair and it will be the last. Every time I called them, I was on hold for at least 20 minutes each time. You're almost guaranteed to speak with someone in India that is almost impossible to understand. I called the corporate number and after 20 minutes was transferred by someone with an Indian accent to their supervisor that had an Indian accent where I waited another 10 minutes. I spent 5 minutes with each of them trying to explain that I just wanted to make a formal complaint. They kept asking me my booking number. When the supervisor finally figured out what I wanted, he referred me to the website (what would have done without him). And if you make a mistake, forget about it. They'll definitely make sure you pay for it. I refuse to do business with companies that outsource as much as possible.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    The rep was very reassuring as far as flight availability and finalizing the flight. She looked at multiple options patiently for me prior to deciding which flight.

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    Reviewed June 28, 2016

    CheapOair ESPECIALLY deceived us. In my 45 years of travel, I have NEVER heard of a more awful experience because of that company. American Airlines didn't help either. Let's see what excuse you have at CheapO: booking # ** for my daughter in law Fumiko **. BECAUSE OF THEM SHE MISSED HER LAX FLIGHT TO JAPAN AND HAD TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN L.A. Flights were supposed to be from SFO to Narita to Sapporo. OH... There was a teeny tiny "1" for the change of plane in L.A. A.A. even said, "Oh no she doesn't need to get off the flight". B.S. She did, but not in LAX, there was an added stop... in Orlando??? Before LAX? How sick is that? And for someone not an English speaker.

    See, what really was the infuriating thing too, I called to CheapOCrappyAir 6 times. SIX TIMES, to confirm... "A stop in LAX"? "Yes". "No". "Yes". "No"... Even frickin' American Airlines GOT IT WRONG. FIRST time "yes", second time "no". Omg... Are you SERIOUS??? This still makes me feel sick. And no compensation of course.

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    Cynthia, you gave 282288 which is only 6 and our confirmation starts with a 3, but I appreciate you responding back with the correct one 35323910. We have call centers in New York, India, Vegas, London, and Canada, and we employee all race of people. Sorry that you had a hard time understanding our agents, perhaps contacting our office in New York 212-478-0335 will be a better fit for you.

    I do see that this reservation was booked online so it appears the connections were an over sight.

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    Reviewed June 28, 2016

    Very good experience.

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    Reviewed June 28, 2016

    I called for help because my code REVIEW20 (for a discount you sent me) wouldn't work on the website. So I booked a flight over the phone. Flight 800 Sky Airlines March 12th Santiago Chile to Lima Peru for $284.00 for two tickets. Ten minutes later I was called back and told the tickets if I still wanted this booking was going to be $350.00. I see that the lower fare is still listed on the website and I am very upset.

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    Reviewed June 28, 2016

    Richard was very helpful in getting the booking cancelled. My husband and I booked the same trip, so I needed to cancel the reservation.

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    Reviewed June 28, 2016

    Changing a flight - It was a good experience and the person I talked to was very helpful.

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    Reviewed June 27, 2016

    The agent that helped me was very knowledgeable and polite. He helped me change my flights quickly and got everything taken care of. One of the best customer service experiences I've ever had.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2016

    I had been CheapOair user for quite some time and had made many purchases. Recently I made an international airline ticket purchase under two bookings that was from Chicago-Boston-Frankfurt-Delhi and Delhi-Frankfurt-Paris-Chicago. Making this purchase on CheapOair website was a breeze and I had no issues. On return trip, thanks to you I had an experience of my life. Return flight time was night 02:45 so along with family/kids I left my hometown in the morning of previous day which was 6 hours away and arrived on Delhi airport 5 hours early. After waiting an hour for ticket counter to open I was the first person on the counter. In my decades of flying experience, for the first time I was denied boarding because I did not had a Schengen visa. This was just the start of the nightmare experience.

    Arguing and pleading with airline representative did not go anywhere. In their records one of the sector Frankfurt-Paris was a domestic flight which CheapOair failed to mention on the website or on follow-up communication and confirmation. In pursuit of giving the cheapest air ticket, website failed to mention that you have to do immigration on one of the legs of the trip. Well, this was not end of the night and I continued working with the airline ticketing representative to give me any alternate.

    After trying for 25 minutes to make changes on the ticket, representative asked me where did I made this purchase and just listening to the name of CheapOair, he smiled and took a step back. He said that I was among many, many people that have been through this nightmarish experience - thanks to CheapOair. It is not just the unethical step of giving tickets without proper notification of "type" of flight it is the restrictions put on the tickets that the airline representative cannot change. So, the airline representative handed back my ticket and said that the tickets are made too restrictive by CheapOair and as per the system can only be changed by calling CheapOair.

    Oh well, making international call when most shops/counters were closed at airport was a breeze. Nevertheless, after waiting for 4-5 minutes spoke to a representative who did not show much interest or the depth of my situation, maybe I was one of many everyday cases which I can understand. He took comfortably 15-18 minutes and gave me a quote of around the same amount that I originally purchased. On pleading about the case and the fact that "domestic" flight was never mentioned, he comfortably said, read the fine prints and traveller is responsible of finding out details.

    I compare the experience with another travel website that notified me for similar scenario about "domestic" leg of trip and the fact that VISA is required. Unfortunately, this was not the end of the night for me. After making the payment of about $3000 for penalty/fare difference and various fees, I was told to wait for 30 min and the ticket will be issued. Now at this time my flight was leaving in 3 hour. After waiting for 30 min I went to the airline counter and I was told that CheapOair has not completed the ticket purchase process, booking change was made but ticket wasn't issued. Flight was full and it added my frustration but I gave another 15 min and asked the airline to check, there wasn't any change. So, I called up CheapOair again and this time wait time was only 8 minute and I was told to wait another 15 minute. So, I waited and after 20 min, stood in the queue again and asked the airline and there wasn't any change.

    Called again and was told to wait another 15 minute, at this time my flight was leaving in under 2 hours and I had to get boarding card and do security check. Well finally 1.5 hour prior to flight airline could see the change and gave me the boarding card. So, anyone deciding to get "cheapest" deal, please make sure you read the "fine print" or book somewhere that better understands travel requirement and notifies the website user as well as provide a tad better customer care.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2016

    I phoned your number found online, needed a flight to make a funeral, and I spoke with Francisco. He was very helpful, got my flight booked without long layovers and was very helpful answering all my questions. This is my first experience with you, but I will certainly look on your site again. Thank you.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    Service was good as it gets... THANKS.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    I purchased a ticket on June 24th and I was notified on June 26 at 4pm that my ticket was cancelled. After talking to them for 1:30 min., they and I concluded that they never processed my cc. Therefore my flight was never booked. They had no apology and I ended up booking a ticket for triple the price. Please do not use their services. And even when they knew the mistake they continued to lie and blame the weather and mechanical issues in the future. My flight was in July and they stated that because of weather and mechanic conditions, the flight was cancelled.

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    The reservations was not confirmed due to Frontier had a schedule change in the middle of booking this reservation., Once it was completed, they did not accept the booking 2 calls were made to Angela in which we received voice mail, once the booking was canceled out, and cancel email sent, is when she contacted us. Our agents did try and make another reservation for her similar to what she had, but she denied. There was no finding of agents telling her it was canceled due to mechanical or weather. It was plainly the airline didn't accept the booking.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    When booking my flight with CheapOair I was told there was no "agent fee" and was charged for one. I told agent that I wanted roundtrip seating arrangements with my flight partner or I would have to look otherwise. He said there is an additional fee to arrange seating, and "assured" me that he was able to book our seating together for the entire roundtrip. Everything sounded great! When I opened my itinerary the next day, one of the transfer flights did not have us seated together. (No seats available together). I contacted CheapOair to ask what happened. They said, "We cannot guarantee it, but at least we got you 75% of the flight together" - how insulting! How about I sell you a pair of shoes and give you only one and tell you, at least you got one of them? NONSENSE. They also stated a supervisor could not help me with this problem. I insisted on a supervisor after going back and forth with this person.

    The supervisor said that it was the airline's responsibility and they had no control over it. So, I asked then "Why are you selling something that you have no control over and telling me that you arranged it as I requested at time of booking?" After much debate he offered to refund my money for seating fee. I also received a refund for the agent fee. NOTE: The original booking agent lied to me about two things: his fees and guaranteed seating arrangement. Though I appreciate the refunds, I will never book with them again. INTEGRITY IS NOT GOOD. I cancelled my car booking with them after this because I want to rest assured there will be no problems. By the way, the airlines said I would have to talk to them about seating arrangements since I booked it with them as a third party. I was able to go straight to the airlines online and arrange my own seating at no charge. Now, to wait for the refunds to post to my account!

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    I am 71 this October and trying to be a part of the online air and travel booking world. I made a mistake on the complex webpage and pushed an available flight which suddenly flexed to another date... I did not know I was in flex mode! I had to call back within the time limit to get help. My staff person was wonderful and explained things to me. I appreciated her respect and speaking slowly for me. I will not give up as a result of her simple explanations of steps to do it next time on

    my own BUT reassuring that if I made another mistake that you would help me out AGAN. Grateful.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    It was easy booking my trip and car. The only issue I have is that the company that I'm renting a car is charging $200 on top of the price that will be refunded when I return the car but I worry that I won't be refunded!!

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    I had set my departure/arrival dates, paid for the ticket 3 months in advance and then was informed 6 weeks before my trip my son had a major graduation during my scheduled time away. I needed to change my flight dates. I knew it could be $200 or $300 to make the change but I was stuck. I called CheapOair, talked with Cecelia and was able to change the make dates work for me - at a VERY reasonable cost. I was very pleased!

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    The customer service I received was outstanding. Best I have seen ever. Thanks and many Blessings to all. When you call and you can tell right away the agent on the other end wants to help you, that is a great start for a smooth transition. To God be the glory.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2016

    Traveled June 23 supposedly Grand Rapids, MI to Detroit, MI to Amsterdam to Lodz, Poland. Went via KLM/Delta and the last leg Adria Air. This was an itinerary change with corresponding $426 change fee. Problem: the last leg of the trip Amsterdam to Poland the seat was cancelled or not booked appropriately. No reason for the cancellation as I could see it was not a full flight and talking to Adria Air no reservation found.

    Unfortunately due to time constraints and realizing the problem too late unable to make that flight. So talking to Wilford we made arrangement to fly to Munich on the 24th of June, spent the night in the airport and currently for the flight to Lodz on the 25th of June. This "fix" cost me another $100 US dollars. A snafu at was not at fault. I had called Delta and KLM three times on the night before the flight and the itinerary was confirmed. I also had two confirmation emails from CheapOair. I do appreciate Wilford come up with a workable plan however due to my inconvenience and delay to Lodz that wasn't of my doing the extra charge was not justified in my opinion.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2016

    Their help insured me that I will use CheapOair in the future.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2016

    The agent was very helpful and made this experience very easy. I just hope the rest of the CheapOair experience is as smooth.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2016

    Answered all my questions professionally and accurately.

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    Reviewed June 23, 2016

    The agent looked for about one half hour and found me three separate flights at a very inexpensive cost. Dayton to Ft. Myers, Ft. Myers to Costa Rica, Costa Rica to Dayton. He did a fine job.

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    Reviewed June 23, 2016

    I booked a flight for my Mom and had a typographical error on her middle name. I called the customer service and had to wait for so long and it was Very frustrating that I had to pay $50 just to change 1 letter on her ticket.

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    Reviewed June 23, 2016

    The representative we spoke to gave us better flights than we could find and additional benefits as well.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    Booked a flight to return home from Atlanta GA to Allentown PA with one change over in Philadelphia PA on June 18th 2016 to return back to work on the 19th & with the overbooking of CheapOair & American Airlines I was stranded in Atlanta GA for an extra day on standby with very little funds left from my vacation & was almost told I lost funds paid out for confirmed flight booked... With this happening it nearly costed me my job also due to calling out sick on the 19th. As I arrived to my flight location in Atlanta GA to Philadelphia PA (Change Over) I sat for 2 hours prior to boarding and Group 4 was never called to board due to the ladies at counter were too busy with paper jams in the printers, boarding & trying to answer why group 4 not called then to be turned away with standby & attitude... NOT SATISFIED!

    Therefore, missed flight home till next day... Low funds left. And almost lost my job of 30 years with same company... due to calling out sick. Not Happy. But glad to be home! I leave myself asking... Do I fly with American Airlines thru CheapOair... It is in the Air! Was able to book flight home for the 19th with one layover but I am still livid with this inconvenience, also with my loss of pay with my job for Sunday, June 19th.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    NEVER NEVER use this website... I wanted to add an infant, I had to call 8 times. If you ask for supervisor, after 10 mins. waiting it will disconnect. Rude service. Pathetic, false, bargain. The phone number in the website is not the customer service, billing dept. Once you said all the personal detail, you have to say again because they will move your call around... Horrible.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    I don't know a word that would describe my agent. Maybe super stupendous. She was very friendly, as well as solving all of my problems. There's no doubt she gave 110%.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    CheapOair did a "bait and switch" for our return trip from our vacation in Alaska. The computer option chosen was Fairbanks to Memphis with minimal lay-overs. They fare matrix switched my proposed plans to depart from Anchorage to Memphis with 2 lay-overs. We had to purchase an additional airline ticket through Alaska Air. This company has already been investigated by the Dept of Transportation and paid a $92,500 fine for the very problem I have described. (Wikipedia) My advice: do not fly if you have to use CheapOair. You will spend 26 hours in flights and airports and still not be home, just like my husband and me this very minute.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    I bought a ticket from CheapOair and I thought that's the cheapest price I can get. The next day I found my credit card was charged for two bills. One directly to CheapOair ($31) and one to the airline. I called the customer service and then I waited for almost 20 minutes and the guy on the other side was extremely unfriendly, impatient and even rude. He was trying to explain that everything was paid to the airline. But my credit card bill said very clearly that $31 was paid to CheapOair. I asked for a refund and the guy was telling me that I should go the United Airline in the first place. Then WHY do I need this website? What is the point of having CheapOair?

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    I ended up missing my flight and was placed on standby which worked out for me. Ticket Agent was nice and made several suggestions to me which worked out in my favor. Overall the experience was good.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2016

    For three times I booked my ticket with you, I am happy and satisfied with your service and I will continue my patronage with you in my next business. I avail to choose my seat throughout my flight soon with a reasonable charge. And still waiting for the call.

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    Reviewed June 20, 2016

    There was an issue with my minor daughter flying out of United Airlines to Guam and she was unable to so Tyler ** from New York CheapOair Office helped me to get another booking and my daughter was able to get a reserved booking to Guam with Unaccompanied Minor services. Thank you so much for your help Tyler. She did an awesome job!

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    Reviewed June 20, 2016

    Hi my flight was delayed due to that I cannot get on my connecting flight which I have to be at the airport by 7 am. I thought Virgin policy was you will get the next flight which is 1 hour 15 minutes later but no I'm expected to wait with 3 kids for 6 hours, get home late, get a train at a dangerous hour. The time I get home and wait for other trains it will be the next day at 8 am. I was offered the next flight leaving at 11.35 am but the offer the next day was reneged.

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    Reviewed June 19, 2016

    I bought R/T ticket Manila > Guam. Was told price all in all $482 (for two people). When I notified you that CheapOair put my child in row 10 and me in row 32, you move my daughter to row 32 also. Worst seats possible, but... oh well... Then you charged me $62 to rectify your representatives ignorance. If a child cannot fly alone until she is 17, (and you did know her age) and 2 people are on 1 ticket, and your rep had the brains that God gave a goat this would NEVER happen. When I called via phone I was told that United Airline charged. I ask United and they told me they would NEVER do that. I expect the $62 be refunded IMMEDIATELY.

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    Reviewed June 19, 2016

    My experience was amazing! The agent was absolutely friendly and helpful. I called because there was a problem with booking my flights on the CheapOair website. (My last name is hyphenated so it did not allow me to use my PayPal credit to book and purchase our flights.) However, over the phone he was sorry about that and explained that was something out of their control, and to assist me he actually found me the same flights and was able to give me an even better deal as long as I used a credit card!! That was amazing and I could not pass that up. Thank you to the agent who helped me!! It was a wonderful experience that I was happier to receive!

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    Reviewed June 19, 2016

    Smooth and carefree booking!!!

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    Reviewed June 19, 2016

    Awful customer service. I had booked a flight in May 2016 with CHEAPOAIR going to MIA with my family to visit my grandmother who has terminal illness and taking the time to bring my children to see their Great Grandmother for the last time. However, I was so sure of my date never even thought of checking after they had sent me the email info about the reservation. I found out later that the reservation had booked for departing on July 24 to July 29 instead of July 26 to August 1st. I had called them immediately to rectify the issue. Of course all I've getting is they reassign me very rudely left and right. Since no one were able to help me I had to call my bank and disputed the charges. I even asked them that I notice other tickets for right date for sale but more expensive. I would mind purchasing it and the gentlemen didn't want to hear me. He shut me up and not even willing to go extra miles to offered even 1% resolution.

    I am in the Hotel Industries in Boston working for a high class hotel on Boylston street as a Manager and I never seeing anything like that. It would have been very nice for them to build strong, enduring connection with the customers and consistently create exceptional experiences through bold, inspired service, and take pride in the results that they delivered.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2016

    Like your service and prices. Also if I filled the form and pre-booking the reservation, always, I will receive your attention friendly. I hope if it is possible, will receive more chances to make the decision to select maybe the best reservation.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2016

    I travel to Far East every year and I always bought air ticket with CheapOair because their services are so good. The rep always make me feel so good and comfy. I will keep going with CheapOair and will recommend with all my friends.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2016

    I have been booking my air tickets through CheapOair from 2009 and was satisfied with service from them but my today's experience is not good. Because of visa issue I needed to change my travel date and for that I called to the customer service. One representative has helped me to change my travel dates, I appreciate for that but he has charged a huge amount of extra money (>$1000 for two tickets) for this which is really frustrating to me. I called the customer service again but nothing has been changed. After this experience I have decided not buy any ticket from this travel agency.

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    Dear Jayasree, very sorry to hear you were not happy with your recent transaction. Each airline has an airline penalty for making changes to your reservation. You were booked from Houston to Kolkata, which isn't an inexpensive place to travel to. So the airline fee of $250.00, to change and the fare difference of $250.00 for a 500.00 add collect is not bad for this type of itinerary. You had Visa issues, so you were very limited on the route and flights that we could offer you. So airfare has gone up since you purchased your ticket, and cheaper seats had already sold out, due to people booked way in advance. But we hope you do try us again, and it will be a better experience and everything is in order next time around.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2016

    I originally had an Internet issue with selecting my flights. I ended up calling the toll free number and was helped quickly and courteously. I wrote down my flight information however, I never received my email confirmation. I called the toll free number for customer service and my issue was once again taken care of quickly. I will continue to use this service and recommend it to my friends.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2016

    Very happy with booking personal. He was courteous & polite. Very happy with him. Help me in my booking.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2016

    After calling CheapOair, it took me less than 15 minutes to get several prices. I decided on the flight that was best for me. It took little time to complete my itinerary for my trip. I must say that I had three airports to chose from to complete my trip.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2016

    It is extremely difficult for me to understand these young people in India and some other parts of the world where you have your bookings. Last night I spent almost an hour trying to fix a mistake in my last name.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2016

    Thought it was outrageous that you charge $100 to book Sears on the plane. Could have done it for nothing at the airport. Sitting an individual whom can't walk in the 30th row makes no sense... Won't do that again with you. Your agent was very good but don't like hidden charges.

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    Reviewed June 16, 2016

    Booking with CheapOair was painless from booking to our return trip home. Would definitely plan another trip with CheapOair.

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    Reviewed June 16, 2016

    Call to change the itinerary on my wife flight to Lima, Peru, and I am happy because the customer service agent was very accurate and helpful.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    I will never use this rip off service again... I got hit with 500 dollars cancellation fee... Never CheapOair again.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    I called CheapOair and explained what I had done and that my ticket has already been issued. The airline would not let me get on plane if my name was wrong. I thought I could change it online but that was not the case. You have to pay $50.00 to correct the error. I told them I was going to cancel my flight. CheapOair agreed to pay half of the $50.00. Very pleasant and helpful and I received my new reservations with my name spelled correctly. My suggested to all is to check and recheck everything you have put in before you submit.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    I booked a flight for my daughter online and immediately noticed I booked a flight for 12:53 am instead of pm. I called and received a gentleman that helped me change the flight and was very courteous and friendly. This is the first time I have used CheapOair but it will not be my last.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    I received excellent customer care from your agent!

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    Very happy with service and will look to use same process in the future. Thank you!

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    Reviewed June 15, 2016

    I am still in shock. I first made my own reservations online, but was unable to get the same connecting flight for the second half of the flight. So, since I wanted to get the flights together, I cancelled one ticket and then called for help. That was mistake number one. NEVER call for help! IN fact, NEVER use this company!

    So the travel agent was pleasant enough and we talked about what to do to get the problem solved. The solution was to route the flight through a different connecting city so we could get the same connecting flight. So I rebooked my wife's flight through Chicago and the plan was to change my daughter's ticket to go through Chicago as well. But evidently, the agent never changed my daughter's flight. I'm sure we talked about doing that because that was the whole purpose of booking my wife's flight through Chicago.

    So, unfortunately, I didn't look closely at the flight information that they sent me. Actually, it's been over a month now so the details are a little fuzzy, but I can't figure out why the agent never changed my daughter's ticket to match the new ticket I got for my wife. So, we were looking at our tickets today and noticed the discrepancy. I was in absolute shock! My wife is taking my daughter back to the US to go to college and now they are on different flights! Absolutely unbelievable! Some of these people sound like they are from India. Perhaps there was a language difficulty? I don't know.

    So, I contacted the company and asked about the discrepancy. The guy I chatted with told me that I only had one ticket and that my wife's ticket had been cancelled! SHOCK number 2! I was again dumbfounded. I cancelled it once, but not twice. Here I thought I had 2 tickets and was all ready to fly and he tells me that I only have 1! Well, I was sure glad I found that out, but was puzzled as to how this could have happened! We continued looking at the information we received from them and checked on the status of my wife's supposedly cancelled flight. Lo and behold, that showed that everything was fine and dandy and ready to go.

    Again I was in shock. In the meantime, I had researched other tickets and almost bought another ticket! I almost wasted $1500 because of their incompetency. So I called them this time and was told that actually, both flights are good to go! How absolutely frustrating! How can I trust what they say now? So, in the end, we do have two tickets but they are for different flights! How can this happen? My failure was to check the details closely after they made the changes. I guess I just trusted what the agent told me and assumed it was right or I missed the parts that were different. Anyway, ALWAYS CHECK THE DETAILS OF THE FLIGHTS! My fault there, but how in the world is such a mistake possible? I will never use them again!

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    Reviewed June 14, 2016

    Agent helpful in resolving problem that I was unable to solve. No clue what problem was, no hint from site, just locked out. The agent quickly solved the mystery & am appreciative of efforts to help.

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    Reviewed June 14, 2016

    CheapOair agent was able to help transfer my ticket to a new destination during a family crisis with no issues. Thank you very much.

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    Reviewed June 14, 2016

    After an initial review with the agent I thought this was going to be confrontational but actually it ended up well. They had every right to charge me a significant fee as the error WAS my fault. I don't like how the system alters your initial request of dates to a flexible schedule to dates sometimes nowhere near what you need. My ending was terrific and a slight fee was charged.

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    Reviewed June 13, 2016

    Agent was extremely helpful and reminded me of a senior discount that lowered the price of my ticket. Very grateful for him.

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    Reviewed June 13, 2016

    After a brief time on hold, the agent helped me procure my flight. I was happy with the conversation, even more with the price. Overall, a good experience!

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    Reviewed June 13, 2016

    I would highly recommend CheapOair to anyone. Great service, speedy results from customer service. My family and I will be using them whenever we fly.

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    Reviewed June 12, 2016

    Best service I have ever had. Argent helped me get a flight exactly what I needed as well as the price.

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    Reviewed June 11, 2016

    After searching for a last minute cheap flight it seemed the bots noticed what we were searching for. And in this case no rd. trips showed up only one ways seemed cheaper and the correct return. Then when it was, the selection the desired flight vanished or screen froze. In calling cs for help that seemed that all we could find on both ends, was 2 hrs. away from our departure city, which was the wrong city but all that was offered. AS SOON AS IT WAS BOOKED, and she was done and off the phone with cs, she did one more search. To her surprise there was the destination return! So she booked it. But she spent the next 4 days trying to cancel the wrong return 2 hrs. away with no success! Is this just to get any departure sold even if it's the wrong destination?

    So my wife spent 4 days on the phone trying to get the so-called advertised 4-hr. or 24 hrs. cancellation. She got put on hold, disconnected, and every agent promised to help her but then after 30 to 40 mins. of the same discussion to each new rep, name, flight, problem, she was disconnected, then had to call back. She tried ALL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION FOR A REFUND. Chat, text, email, hrs. upon hrs. & days on the phone. And everything was copied and documented. We even finally got a cs email saying they got our refund request, and said they would get back to us. They never did. Obviously they are very busy servicing customers either buying tickets or handling complaints.

    Possibly their website and their phones were overloaded but each time they asked for a callback number. Either she didn't get a callback or the call would ring once no message would be left and if she tried to call back the number it was a number that could not be called back. As I said this went on for four days of her being the aggressive person trying to reach them and trying to talk to them to fix the problem of the duplicate booking to the wrong destination. It was not until the day before the flight that she finally demanded to speak to another supervisor as she had been doing all along and threaten them with legal action. Each person she had spoken to in the four days knew why she was calling. But when she spoke to this person Garratt in SOD the whole procedure took 5 minutes. Yet she repeatedly had asked for a supervisor in her prior calls.

    I cannot imagine why the other representatives she spoke to talk to her for at least a half an hour putting on hold then coming back to her saying that they were working on it and then nothing was ever written about in notes or anything else although that may not be true because that was what one person said where several of the people said there were notes about this whole problem. There are many complaints all over the internet about this service although we had used them in the past we had never tried to cancel anything. But I can say that I feel very gun-shy as whether or not to ever use them again, ever have faith in them again. My wife even called the airlines and she said of course they had to take it up with the travel agent. She was very persistent spending hours and hours and hours and hours and hours on the phone and still it did no good.

    On the fourth day we saw that that was a duplicate charge which CheapOair claims will fall off at some point for the wrong destination ticket that we have been trying to cancel. So now that our credit card is tied up with holds and fees and everything else from CheapOair and the airlines it makes you really wonder if you can have faith in this company. This supervisor claimed that he would on our behalf contact the airline to see if they would consider refunding the money because it was out of CheapOair's hands even though it within the time frame that CheapOAir advertises. However even though we got emails in regards to this that day of the transaction but never was the refund processed as per CheapOair.

    They claim that if the airline does not release the funds and refund us the money that they will see what they can do. Is this any way to do business, fool me once shame on you Karma for me twice... I will do an update on this outcome if we get our money back which I doubt seriously. As far as I'm concerned this is false advertising, they tried and succeeded for 4 days to avoid our numerous requests for cancellation, even though we still had travel with a departure and arrival with the same cities on the itinerary. All of this was within the cancellation time frame and 4 days prior to the flight.

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    Reviewed June 11, 2016

    My experience with CheapOair was undeniably an excellent experience. Recently, I opted to change my flight schedule. Although the call went too long and been talking to 3 agents. The last agent named Elroy had been very helpful with all of my queries. He provided me all the information I needed and he even offered me options about the availability of the flight schedules. Consequently, I run out of minutes since I was calling outside US. Nonetheless, he called me back and walk through with all the procedures. He was truly professional in handling the situation and I am very thankful to him. It was indeed an excellent service from CheapOair and Elroy is truly an asset to your company. Thank you very much!

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    Reviewed June 11, 2016

    Your service with reservations is very good but your customer service people are always very confused every time I ask a question like how do I get rewards. They get very confused and can't answer. Not good.

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    Reviewed June 10, 2016

    I applied for $20 off offer when I signed up for your points. The offer came through after I finished a review you asked for. Never got confirmation of Charlotte to Portland Maine flight for June 19. Thank you for your great service. Glad I found you.

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    Reviewed June 9, 2016

    Booked round trip for $181.20 from CheapOair on June 7, 2016, received confirmation email at 7:52pm. Sent my mother itinerary and requested vacation time from work. Received email from CheapOair on June 7, 2016 saying "The price requested for your itinerary has changed." Clicked link and saw price had gone up to $269.00. Still a little less expensive than other flights so book the flight again. Receive confirmation email.

    Received email from CheapOair on 6/8/2016 saying "Due to the airline(s) not confirming your booking, we were unable to issue your tickets." The AIRLINE did not confirm booking? Confirmation is automatic with every airline I have ever booked with. And I get this a day later? The link attached to the email takes me to a page where my "alternate flight options" are now in the $500.00-$600.00 range. With the option to cancel the flight, of course. Canceling the flight involves a 90-minute wait online or a 45-minute wait by phone. By this time my flight options are limited and very expensive. HORRIBLE service.

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    Reviewed June 9, 2016

    The customer service representative was very helpful getting my flight requirements & explained all of the options that were available for me.

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    Reviewed June 9, 2016

    I needed to make minor change on my flight. He helped me great deal. I really appreciate. Thanks again.

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    Reviewed June 8, 2016

    Hi. I give my service from CheapOair the highest marks... informative, kind and considerate, competent. Got just what I wanted.

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    Reviewed June 8, 2016

    Help to change flawed booking in my itinerary. I was helped and I was quite satisfied with the level of professionalism by her attitude.

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    Reviewed June 8, 2016

    The Agent that attended me was courteous and most helpful! Thank you! I have used your Site many times over the last few years and have never been disappointed! Your Personnel do a grand job!!

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    Reviewed June 7, 2016

    Thanks for the easy way to book our vacation with you. You answer all my questions and made it very easy to book. I will recommend CheapOair and will use you again. Thanks.

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    Reviewed June 7, 2016

    The customer service was extraordinary. The only downsize is the time it took them to answer the phone.

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    Reviewed June 7, 2016

    Mislead you to sell you your flight. When it's time to make changes, they charge all they can. No bags with your flights. No wonder it's cheap!

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    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    While ordering tickets on-line, the offered price suddenly jumped upwards several hundred dollars. I canceled the transaction immediately. No more than a minute later, a CheapOTickets representative called to inform me of available flights meeting my needs and price requirements on another airline. We quickly consummated a transaction which fulfilled my travel wishes. Good job!

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    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    This is my first experience with CheapOair. The gentleman was fast and sent confirmation within 20 minutes. I asked for assigned seats for Hans & Lorraine together and he said that was extra but the first flight 6031--the seats are separated by one and on return light from LAX to DEN (6022) it says Select Seats so he did not fulfill our needs totally. I guess we will find out in December if we will use CheapOair again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    I had booked my ticket online. Had issues but were solved professionally and I can't complain for I know these things happen. Made a lot of phone calls to resolve my issues and I hope I will not call again for another problem.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    Was a great experience. Was skeptical at first but after speaking with agent I was reassured, and I got a better price than was advertised. I'm pleased. Thanks.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    I had nice experience with talking to book online. He will answer for every question so am happy. His name Mekhi & next day Brodrick. They are legends for CheapOair.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    As I have come to expect, I received excellent, helpful service from CheapOair.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2016

    The associate that helped me was extremely helpful, patient, and knowledgeable. Made sure that I was completely satisfied.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2016

    My experience with CheapOair has been very good. Thank you.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2016

    I had to postpone my trip. The agent was extremely knowledgeable and efficient. For an additional $66.00 -- reduced to $50.00 after $16.00 coupon offered by the agent -- I had my plane ticket exchanged for a later weekend on the same flight at the same time I originally had booked. Too easy and affordable.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2016

    I had nice experience with talking to book online. He will answer for every question so am happy. His name Mekhi & next day Brodrick. They are legends for CheapOair.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed June 5, 2016

    All information from your agent was exceptional. You helped me get a flight inside of Florida for a fairly good price. My dad passed away and I was hoping for a much lower price. In all excellent service.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 4, 2016

    I called 3 times to consumer service to make a change on my flight dates since my children will not be allowed to flight because we did not have a birth certificate properly Apostille. The first time they told me that the penalty was 27.000 USD (for 5 tickets that cost less than 4.500 in total). That was CRAZY! I called LATAM and they told me that the penalty was 200USD per ticket but they could not make the change. I called a second time and the lady said she will have called me back because she could not see the final penalty of the cost (system problem). She did not call me back. I had to called a third time and the lady manage to make the change and fix all. The third lady was outstanding. I wish the first two would have been as caring as efficient!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 4, 2016

    My trip to Milwaukee - Customer service really worked with me. I am very happy.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2016

    I was on hold with the customer service agents for over one hour! Got through once, and when I told them that I needed to change my departing flight the call "dropped". I called again and was never able to get through and was on hold for an additional 45 minutes. I tried the live chat and after telling them my issues I once again received no response. My final attempt was by sending an email to the customer service rep which conveniently "failed". I will NEVER be using this website for booking again! Expedia will be my go to from now on.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2016

    Your customer service person was very helpful in trying to find the right travel time and place stop over for me. I appreciate all the time he took to do this for me.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2016

    Both agents I spoke with were helpful. The first young lady was so helpful. Never had this service from any other booking agency. So sorry I cannot remember her name. Most pleasant young lady. Would use CheapOair in the future.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2016

    I spoke with Silas. He was a great help. (I had become very frustrated in trying to find a flight for my husband and myself, to PVR.) Silas found the flight that best suited us. He was patient, explained everything, and went over everything to make sure I understood before I actually booked. This is my first time booking with CheapOair, and I will definitely be using this service again.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2016

    The rep was kind, understanding, and patience through my transaction. He was very awesome. The rep did transfer to another area where I could be help for my concerns. Great customer service all around.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 2, 2016

    Extremely bad experience, as soon as they know that you are calling because of an issue from a month ago, they start transferring the call without telling you. Just today I spoke with 6 different agents. Nobody knew why I was calling for. I know that the have note regarding my issue, I worked at a call center with excellent customer service and I never did that, customers are first. A month ago and I still have an issue, nobody want to resolve the issue. Dynamic Airlines are not flying from Maracaibo anymore, only from Caracas, that doesn't work for me, that's why I need a refund. Thanks.

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    After a positive interaction with CheapOair, Dara increased their star rating on July 12, 2016.

    Updated review: July 12, 2016

    The company ended up refunding my money sooner than 21 days as they had originally stated. However, I shouldn't have had to call and argue with them for them to do so. They never should have charged my card to begin with.

    Original Review: June 2, 2016

    I was looking at flights and they charged my card on an unauthorized purchase. The tickets I was looking at were $600-$800 and for some reason with my consent they charged my card $291.60. Horrible company I will never do business with again.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2016

    Great assistance - good change on flight. Costly, but a good change.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2016

    I have booked flights before with CheapOair and I recommend them to all my family and friends. They have the best prices and are very knowledgeable.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2016

    The rep took care of my lost booking information problem instantly. I couldn't be more pleased.

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    Reviewed June 1, 2016

    Great price and fast service.

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    Reviewed June 1, 2016

    Durban (or Dunbar) was courteous, very helpful, polite, and kind to this old woman. Thanks for having on your site.

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    Reviewed June 1, 2016

    It was a great experience. The attendant was efficient and understood what I needed and gave me the things I needed for my flight. I would recommend others to use your services.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 1, 2016

    I had to cancel a flight and book another flight and the customer service rep was very helpful.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2016

    For two days in a row I saw the flights online I wanted for the price I was willing to pay. Both days after I filled in all the necessary information I got the message that the flights I was seeking was no longer available. Coincidence? I don't think so. Also I started getting several calls from the company asking me if I wanted those same flights for $300 more! That's called bait and switch. I called CheapOair and requested to talk to a supervisor and finally was transferred to a woman who listened to my complaints. After giving her all the desired dates and flight numbers she asked if I could be placed on hold for a few minutes. Where do they go and what do they do when that happens? Well, she put me on hold for 30 minutes until ultimately I was disconnected. They always ask in advance for a "good contact number" but she never tried to get back to me. I am furious! Shame on you CheapOair!!!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2016

    The WORST experience I ever had booking and buying flights online!!! I came to the Caribbean to film a documentary. When I got to Barbados CheapOair had canceled my flight that I paid for and even had a booking number and ticket printed because the company raised the price of the ticket 4 hours after! If they can't guarantee the price they should NOT be selling plane tickets online. I lost 2 days of filming, had to pay for the entire team to sleep in another place, and when I tried to call (international) to understand what was happening they put me on hold for more than 20 minutes and the call drops, once, twice, 3x. Crazy bad service, this site should be closed!

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    Reviewed May 30, 2016

    You guys are great!

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    Reviewed May 30, 2016

    I can't tell you how many times I heard, "Just a minute, ok?" But always with care and very kindly. My intent by calling was as offered on the website, to get confirmation of airlines policy for 3 flights for my minor child traveling unaccompanied. Instead I had a full service, checking each flight and related company policy on this matter, booking it for me. What I don't understand is why it took over an hour but fortunately with loud speaker and mute buttons, and with the gentleness and correctness of the person helping me I didn't get mad showing that when tools aren't so great people make such a difference. I was surprised that whenever I said, "But the flight you get me is more expensive than the one I found", he kept searching and finally also gave me the insurance I wanted and the taxes for free almost so it looks as if it's like a car you see a price but you can still bargain (on the phone here) if you take the time!

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    Reviewed May 30, 2016

    I called twice, and both agents were wonderful; they were efficient, professional and pleasant. They helped me get flights to Quito, Ecuador for an incredibly low price. They answered all my questions and did a wonderful job of making me feel like a valued customer. Thanks!

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    Reviewed May 29, 2016

    I spent hours trying to book a flight on my own but with one call my flight was booked in about 30 minutes.

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    Reviewed May 28, 2016

    The gentleman I spoke with was very efficient, helpful and friendly. It was a pleasure to speak with him.

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