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Reviewed July 7, 2015
My wife bought a round-trip ticket to Australia to see her family. She did the right thing in buying travel insurance because our schedules constantly change. When a family emergency came up for me, Onetravel.com proceeded to send us on a wild goose chase, back and forth between themselves and the airlines involved, only to tell us they will not honor any changes, cancellations, or refunds despite the purchase of the travel insurance. This wasted over 6 hours on the phone between 2 different countries. I told my wife never to use them again, and we travel internationally over 6 times a year.
Reviewed July 5, 2015
They are charging us for the cancellation of booking when the booking was not confirmed. The reason for our cancellation is that they refused to send us a confirmation email without verifying our credit card details. We got a call from an Orlando and he left a number that when we tried to return the call, we got a recording that said the number does not exist. We tried other numbers on the website and were put on hold from call centres from India to Philippines where they had no idea what to do and put us through to these US numbers that did not respond.
Then we got a call from a person who did not want to verify our credit card details but wanted the work details of the card holder including a work email. They also had access to a landline number that we had not provided and not used for last six years. I asked him how he got these details and what the cardholder's work email had to do with booking a flight because surely a lot of unemployed people also booked airline tickets. He said they were trying to make sure the security of credit card. I asked if he realized that they were breaching privacy by having access to the information that we had not even provided and could he see how ridiculous his request was. At this he disconnected the phone. I am really upset by this breach of privacy and am wondering what kind of financial risk I am in.
Reviewed July 3, 2015
This business is very very very frustrating, unreliable, and unprofessional. They hung up on me 8 times exactly and placed me on hold for 2 hours and never picked up. They are very quick to take your money and try their hardest to not return your money back. They also, charge VERY HIGH for just a date change and are very rude. The employees are based in India and barely speak English and then get frustrated when you can't understand them. When we wanted a refund from the company not telling me additional info and extra charging to my credit card, they said they would call us back between 24-48 hour period and never did. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS TRAVELING AGENCY!!!
Reviewed July 3, 2015
This was the second call. The first the person spoke very poor English and I told him I couldn't understand him. He repeated the opener and even though it wasn't much better, I started to speak. He repeated the message two more times, said he couldn't hear me and was hanging up - which he did! The second call took 23 minutes. I was trying to change reservations. I had to give the information multiple times. After much silence I asked if he was still there. He said he was "checking flights". (This would be repeated many times during the call).
At one point after he's gone I asked what flights he was checking and he told me there were no flights out that day. Later when he was checking for another flight, after almost 5 minutes of silence he asked me what I wanted him to do. I could tell from the coughing and sniffling he wasn't feeling well and I really wonder if he hadn't fallen asleep. I finally ended the call when I could no longer get him to respond to my questions. I could hear others in the background so I know we hadn't been disconnected. What a terrible way to run a customer service operation, Onetravel!
Reviewed July 2, 2015
If you care for your time and Money do not use OneTravel. They left me at the airport for two days. Did not help at all, and did not care. They tried to place the blame on the airline company, when I had paid them $5300? They wanted more money to change my itinerary, when it was their fault at the first place. I called them seven times, they let me on hold, and after some time the line was lost. They are rude, they kept asking me the same questions over and over again. I am going to sue them.
Reviewed July 1, 2015
Terrible Company. Booked and paid for an airline ticket online for my father through this company. Got a confirmation of the ticket the day before. He is 70 years old and when he got to the airport with his confirmation booking number, there was no ticket booked on the airline he was supposed to fly with! They tried to tell him he had to pay for another ticket!!!! He was mortified! After arguing on the phone with them for over an hour they finally issued another ticket at no cost (at the very least that's what a company should do after you bought and paid for it already!!!) and they refused to compensate him in any other way. He almost missed the flight too. DON'T ever use this company. Bad Business!!!
Reviewed July 1, 2015
Paid for the tickets. Then found out my return flight was not what I chose. 200.00 to fix it per person. Not happy! No customer service.
Reviewed June 30, 2015
I tried to buy a tickets from Des Moines to Philippines. It said one tickets left. When I purchase the ticket and I receive a response stating that the ticket is sold. Couple hours later I went back and check their website. The same price is still there and it said one ticket left. I think this website is a scam. I haven't check my credit card if it was charge.
Reviewed June 29, 2015
On June 25, I booked a flight ticket with my credit card for my wife online. After I followed all procedures online and got a booking no. but the traveler's name was me, not my wife. Then I called One Travel. A representative said it was computer's auto corrections and asked me to pay extra $25 and changed the flight to other airlines that the schedule was not suit for my wife.
Reviewed June 29, 2015
Stay away from this crap place. They have the worst customer service. They lie about everything. 2 days before my father-in-law's flight was scheduled to depart I got an email saying that it was cancelled. When asked why did get was cancelled they said all the airline do it. They suck. I can't stress enough. Stay away from this company. Don't ever use them. You will lose your money and your time.
Reviewed June 29, 2015
For starters, my itinerary changed so many times it ended up my departure was not on the day I had originally booked. While trying to confirm my travel arrangements prior to departure I was disconnected over 5 times. No one could assist... They just transferred and disconnected. Furthermore, the customer service representatives were extremely rude and perhaps the most unknowledgeable customer service personnel I have ever displeasure of speaking with. I proceeded to go online to their Live Chat to see if I was able to reach a representative and was disconnected after 4 attempts. When I finally received a response via Live Chat it did not answer my simple questions and again the agent was rude and hopelessly inept.
In my case I was traveling for vacation and was ever so excited for my trip (I cannot even imagine if I had been traveling for business or emergency). OneTravel made it so difficult and such an extreme hassle with their deplorable and incompetent service. I wish I would have read the comments on this website before making the mistake of booking with them. PLEASE BEWARE AND BE WARNED... DO NOT USE ONETRAVEL!!!
Reviewed June 28, 2015
I booked 2 first class tickets and a premium economy to go overseas. I was assured that they would deal with requested seats. Now I'm left with seats in the middle row and the premium economy is only economy. You can change anything with the airline because one travel is considered the agent. I'm going to dispute the charges with my credit card company!!!
Reviewed June 24, 2015
If I could rate this agency less than 1 I would! First of all I purchased a trip to DR and needed to make changes to my trip which resulted in US Airways penalizing me (** airline) but the process to do this at an affordable cost was deplorable. The agents had no clue what they were doing and then to top it off they were rude about the whole process. I had to find my own flight and walk them through the process... I should be employed by them after this experience. I asked to speak with a supervisor because I was quoted affordably on one call and ten min later it was gone. I had to wait 2.5 hours and then I got disconnected and they never even called me back.
Reviewed June 23, 2015
Horrible experience. Charges me twice the amount of the original ticket, weren't accommodating at all. Very rude customer service representative. Will never recommend this to anyone.
Reviewed June 23, 2015
Your agents are HORRIBLE. Had to deal with two very unknowledgeable people. I booked with first agent who told me you took dogs. I was going from Cuenca EC. to Miami. He took my credit card info, etc and I was booked!! Then I had to call back and I was told you never take dogs on Tame. I had to rebook and was charged a fee. I rebooked with another agent who sent me to Guayaquil to Quito, then Quito to Miami and he guaranteed me my luggage would go straight through and also my dog. Paid the fee and began packing. Drove 3-1/2 hrs from Cuenca to Guayaquil and was told these airlines Avianca and LAN are totally different and my luggage and dog have to be picked up and moved me to LAN. Cost of luggage and dog was $90.00. Paid a man handler to help me in Quito as I am 71 years old and in a wheelchair.
Finally boarded in Quito and arrived in Miami and there was no wheelchair waiting, though one was ordered. Never got a wheelchair and had to get someone to help me which took 40 min. and a nice tip. I have nothing good to say about OneTravel. Your help is very unknowledgeable and will say anything to book. That is exactly the way you get a bad reputation. People should double check, make sure they have a English speaking representative, and finally if they have a little doubt DON'T book with OneTravel. I was and still am FUMING. Your agents are so untrained, unknowledgeable and just push any kind of reservation to the customer. You are handling my emails, the same way as you handled my air tickets. Horrible. Am posting again. You just don't want to respond!!
Reviewed June 22, 2015
This company is a scam, they will advertise the lowest fare and upon checkout the flight will become unavailable. At this point, they will offer up to a 50 dollar discount as an inconvenience which will result in at least a 100 dollar increase from the original quoted price. Naturally, the potential consumer will give them a call. They will not be able to find the flight that you found (because it does not exist anywhere outside of their website). Did the flight disappear? Nope, you will find the same flight again, same price, etc on their site.
The purpose is to drive the consumer into the tedious process of filling out personal/checkout info giving the consumer a false sense of accomplishment. The goal is to then offer the same rates as their competitors or higher to the consumer who is frustrated and just wants to complete the process after spending at least an hour trying to book a flight. Calls are outsourced and the customer service is scripted and incompetent. Please do not become prey to this "business". It is a parasite to the travel economy.
Reviewed June 21, 2015
First and last time I use the OneTravel services!! Horrible people, they will not email my rental information and I have to call many, many times to confirm because their CSR will hang up on me and will not send the email. The last thing they did, they will put you on hold or pretend the call was lost. Made reservation for the car June 16th and still waiting for the stupid email. Do not recommend OneTravel services at all.
Reviewed June 20, 2015
I booked a flight for me and my wife to go to San Francisco from Miami from the June 18-21 without ever sending me and I should've double check the ticket cause I know the dates before I brought the ticket and after getting to San Francisco I realize the ticket date said the 25th. I didn't have any more money and they charged me over $600 dollars for penalty fees for me to change the dates back to the 21st leaving me stuck in San Francisco.
Me and my wife lost my job. My wife almost lost her job because of this simple mistake that could've been handle way better. I suggest no one to ever buy from this third party company. I ask to speak to a supervisor and left me on hold for almost an hour and told me there was no manager to handle my situation at this time. They would have to give me a call back within four hours and I'm still waiting on the call. My whole trip was ruin and don't want no one else to experience this. Customer service is important and they don't have customer service or care for their customers.
Reviewed June 12, 2015
I was booking flights for my parents and found a flight from New Delhi to Toronto at a good rate. When I was actually confirming the flight and waiting to process the transaction another window popped up and said that due to high in demand that particular flight's price has been jumped up. Then I was given another option with change in price, of course higher than before. I booked my flights. After waiting for two hours, I did not get the confirmation number. Then I called the customer service line and they hang up the call three times in a row.
Now I was frustrated, somehow able to speak to customer representative which keep on saying, "thank you for calling CheapOair". Agent was rude and I was trying to confirm the meals and seats for my parents. Agent confirmed me that seats are assigned and I will receive an email in 10-15 mins for confirming the seats. Waited for a day. Called next day and agent told me that no meals and seats are assigned yet, poor customer service. Then I checked my credit card and noticed completely different price was charged on to my credit card. Complete rip-off. Never ever book your flights with company. Not helpful at and love to make your trip miserable.
Reviewed June 11, 2015
We booked a flight to Vegas. The person that booked our flight with One travel could barely speak English. When we received our tickets the dates were not even in the right month and One Travel's supervisor would not do anything to correct the issue. The bill we received via email was one price the charge to our credit card was different. About 70 dollars higher. The booking agent informed us the insurance for travel was free and then charged us for it also. We had to cancel our trip. Costs for cancellations of the vacation property and the room charges were in excess of 400 dollars. We get what we deserve when we send this work to a foreign country. There is no recourse and no justice. Steer clear of these liars and let us band together to bring this outsourced work back to the US. No wonder their prices for labor are so cheap, you get what you pay for.
Reviewed June 8, 2015
Terrible experience. Once you select the flight you want they will ask you for your credit card information first. After you book it they will give you a completely different flight - for more money, of course. Their customer service is AWFUL! VERY RUDE. Stay away from this company.
Reviewed June 1, 2015
They are irresponsible. I want to change the last name but they told me that wait for few days. I don't want to spend any more time on this matter. I went to airline office. The airline officer told me that "we can't change your name. You need talk to the Onetravel." So I told to Onetravel that I can't change the last name, “What can I do?” “Please ma'am, just wait for few days.” I sent email, phone and chatting. As I haven't heard from Onetravel yet I waited for 1 month but Onetravel told me nothing anymore. I was angry, so I told to Onetravel on the phone but Onetravel told me that “you can't change your last name.” Oh my god. They are irresponsible.
Reviewed June 1, 2015
How I lost $5,000 (Five Thousand Dollars!!) What a scam!!! Beware of this OneTravel company!! Don't touch them with a 10-foot pole!! The worst company I've ever dealt with!!! I booked round trip flights with OneTravel and they offered me a trip cancellation policy which I purchased. A week before our intended departure, my wife injured her back and was not able to travel. We have all the documentation to prove it. I had previously booked my land portion with another travel company.
When I called OneTravel to inquire about settling the trip cancellation claim, they told me that all they cover is the air portion and not any other expenses not purchased from them. I was told that it is not really a trip cancellation policy but only an airfare cancellation policy which means that I am losing close to $5,000 on my land portion. When I asked the rude customer service person why this distinction was not explained in the policy declaration, she told me that she is explaining it to me now!!! And how come I refuse to understand that!!
Reviewed May 29, 2015
Booked a ticket for my son, the advertised price was 764, and booking processed online. 5 minutes later I got a phone call saying American Airlines had changed the price to 864 and that was best deal. On reviewing the AA ticket, the price was 764 and the 100 extra was a service charge. Their website specifically says service charges are included in published price which was 764. I have booked with many other online sites before and never experienced a practice like this. I looked again today and they are still advertising this flight for $777. I find this to be very deceptive and will not use them again.
Reviewed May 24, 2015
Do not use this website! Even if you put in the exact dates you want and verify multiple times, when you purchase the tickets, they send you an e-mail an hour later saying that you have tickets on a different flight. When you call customer service to correct the issue, all they do is hang up on you repeatedly and no one resolves the issue. You get stuck with tickets you don't want. DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE!
Reviewed May 22, 2015
NEVER BOOK TICKETS WITH THIS COMPANY! My partner and I booked two tickets from Toronto to Cartagena (Colombia). My mother had a stroke and needed to change the tickets to get to her in Bogota (Colombia) - obviously assuming the 200 dollar fee. I waited for about 6 hours on the phone while my mother was dying in a hospital. They hang up on me several times after literally begging not to hang up on me. I used the live chat as well: no response. Sent emails: no response.
After waiting for those 6 hours I had to buy a new ticket. This time to attend my mother's funeral because during the waiting time I missed the only flight that I could have taken in order to say goodbye. We have sent multiple emails and after a month, there's still no response of how we're going to deal with the almost 2000 dollars that we paid for those tickets PLUS the costs of buying a new one. They are rude on the phone and refuse to send emails with a proper response. After reading all the other reviews we started to think that we lost our money.
Reviewed May 20, 2015
I bought a ticket from Bahrain about 2.5 hours before a flight of MOMONDO, a good site. It hosts many low cost ticket sellers, one of them being ONETRAVEL. So I book the tickets (2 off) at $US1000 each -- and I get a confirmation number and everything -- but the card isn't charged. I'm about to fly, and I have no valid ticket. So anyway, I had to buy another ticket at the airport. 3 hours later, I get a text saying my card is charged. So I call the airline. They won't deal with me. Have to go through ONETRAVEL. Refund (Cancellation) fee is $125 according to the airline -- ONETRAVEL says they'll take $200 on top of that. Why the airline couldn't do it, I don't know. So I'm $650 down and peeved off. So don't buy tickets from ONETRAVEL, and certainly not within 24 hours of your flight. Just deal direct with the airline.
Reviewed May 20, 2015
However, just a few days before our trip that we were been told by OneTravel that Aegean airline has cancelled the flights and after many phone calls to OneTravel that they were unable to provide any alternatively options and then they agreed to give us the refund. So for last minute, we ended up to pay a very high-priced air tickets through other airline to go to Athens for our Easter holiday Because the bad experiences with OneTravel that we suffered a lot on our emotions during those period, especially our young children. Until now we still have not received our refund and we have been spending a lot of time try to contact with Onetravel for refunding our money but there is no one answer our phone calls or reply our emails.
Today I received a Facebook message from OneTravel asking us that do us aware of the air tickets are NONREFUNDABLE. This is absolutely a criminal statement that OneTravel took our money for not provide any service and now told us the tickets are NONREFUNDABLE. (The flights were cancelled and no alternative options were provided at all!!!) This is simply a con trick for taking money for nothing. This practice will need to be reported to the Trading standard and any government body in USA. Please everyone knows how we can get our refund back from...
Reviewed May 19, 2015
I recommend avoiding this company at all costs. My first issue was that due to a mistake with autocorrect that changed one letter of a name I was charged a $25 fee for a "name change." A little bit later I found the same flight for $15 less on the airline website. When I checked my credit card statement I saw three charges, one to the airline for the exact amount I found on the airline website, then a $15 charge, as well as the $25 fee. It's clear that the way this company works is they simply bought the flight from the airline, but then tacked on a $15 fee hoping I wouldn't check. Thankfully, I did check, and demanded a refund for the $15 per their price guarantee, but I'm still waiting to see if the refund goes through.
If I had bought the ticket through the airline I would have been able to cancel within 24 hours, so I certainly wouldn't have been charged to change one letter of a name. Basically, I just threw away $25, and wasted time on the phone by using this website. It's not a huge amount of money, but it is very frustrating.
Reviewed May 19, 2015
They have no idea what they are saying or doing. All they can say is call the airline... Well why when I booked with you... Shouldn't you know what I'm asking. They don't speak English, and they only know what they have been taught to say. So when you ask them a abstract question (such as question about the baggage) they have no idea how to handle it other than saying, "call the airline". They are uselesssssss!!!!
Reviewed May 18, 2015
I booked at one travel to go to NEPAL to see my husband. Was charged 1545.00. In the mean time waiting my husband went to India and had an accident there, so I had to cancel my ticket. Then got call he was sent back to Nepal and I had to go there asap, so called to get ticket reinstated. Well they charged me 2222.00 for it this time so almost 700.00 more. Then put one stop on the flight so that when got to Kunming china they wouldn't let us board the plane. Said was late and had a 2 day delay there until next plane. Omg it was horrible. No one speak English. The airport put me in hotel with no way to call out or even internet so I could contact my husband and family to let them know I was ok. My family and husband was so upset they didn't know what happened.
Then get flight to Kathmandu. Well then had been rerouted to Bangladesh and was on the runway there for more than 2 hours again waiting and after 4 days finally arrive at KTM and my husband was not there because had no way to contact anyone. He was at the hotel worried sick and on the phone with my family. I really don't think these people care what they charge you or what they put you through. They could have at least given a partial refund for all the trouble they put me through. Wish someone would do something about this. It is crazy prices for all the trouble I went through and 3 days late getting there.
Reviewed May 16, 2015
They did not have current flight info. They booked us on non existing flights. And then they refused refund. And I could hardly understand the people. Come to find out they are outsourced in India.
Reviewed May 11, 2015
I book flights from Hong Kong to LA. When I called Air China to confirm the flights using the "airline confirmation number" they had no notice of my reservation. I had hostile customer service person who got mad at me for asking for a confirmation with China airline. He then disconnect with me. I called back once again and after over an hour on the line and being put on hold several times, they still can't confirm our flight and totally screwed up the seat assignments. They moved us to the very last row of the plane. It is the worst company I have ever worked with in all my years of flying. Do NOT USE this COMPANY!!!
Reviewed May 10, 2015
I found a flight on TripAdvisor. The details changed mid-booking and since I had been filtering the flights through TripAdvisor I didn't see this until the flight was paid for. OneTravel offered to change the flight with an additional cost. Luckily I have protection and can reverse the charges. But beware of this company. This is not a serious travel company.
Reviewed May 9, 2015
Hi Kayak. I always book my tickets through Kayak and I trust the website. This time I saw http://www.onetravel.com strange website listing too cheap price than other websites. When I try to book the flight, after giving all the information, it said the price have increased so ticket not available, while even after 10 minutes they were still showing the same less price both on Kayak and their own website. Within sometime a person from their web site called me and said the same flight is available for 1089.65$ while they listed initially listed it for 1008$. So I said "OK please go ahead and book it for me" (because I believed it went up really).
They did not inform me about any extra charge, but I was charged 1100.65$, some 12$ extra and on top of it for my surprise, I went and checked Kuwait airlines with the confirmation I received. It gave a receipt of 1059$ for which I paid 1100.65$ to http://www.onetravel.com. I had to cancel it finally and they said my money will be refunded only after 7 to 14 business days even though I cancelled within 1 hour of booking. So I am sure they are not doing a fair business. Please make sure they are not spoiling Kayak's reputation.
Finally I got ticket from Vayama (still got the deal from Kayak) for just 1006$ will all inclusive - same ticket. So Kayak's kind attention is needed on this mater. Looks like http://www.onetravel.com/ is trying to cheat people by staying top of the list with showing cheap price than other websites, then ultimately charges customers with lot of hidden fees. As a caring customer, I recommend Kayak not to do business with such unfair people, which will ultimately lead to losing Kayak's reputation as it's listed on Kayak..
Reviewed May 6, 2015
I just got ticket for my parents. They are old and do not know any English. We had a problem in Germany, they were going to come to USA with Air Canada. Canada wants transit visa so they could not get in the flight because no visa. Then I called them to give me new ticket even though I said I want to pay for it. I do not care because my parents waiting. They said they can not help, sorry and closed the phone. I wish I bought directly from agent or Air Canada. The worst experience in my life. What is it mean do not help. I told them I want to pay also - they do not care. Do not buy from them.
Reviewed May 6, 2015
Ridiculous and completely unreliable company. Our Aunt was in the intensive care and we booked a last minute trip (3-4 hours before the flight) through Kayak which linked us to one travel. We made the purchase, received the confirmation email. Checked via Etihad website the ticket number and was online and confirmed. 1.5 hour before the plane and while at the counter checking in, we received a message out of nowhere saying "we canceled your booking as requested;" which surely did not happen. Called them and made a call to their US office which lasted 23 minutes, wondering why they canceled the confirmed ticket that was paid by credit card. Their reluctant response was, "sorry you didn't answer your phone when we tried to call." Obviously this was a big lie as the phone was in my hand and not even in my pocket round the clock. Never ever going to use them again. Be careful.
Reviewed May 6, 2015
I booked a flight on this site by accident as they came up as the first item in a search for Frontier Airlines. You can't pick your seat or pay any additional charges that you can on the Frontier Site. I knew the second I hit "confirm," I was in trouble. Now I look at my credit card statement. They charged me a $26 fee. I am pissed.
Reviewed May 5, 2015
I was looking for inexpensive airplane tickets for my family trip to Orlando when OneTravel appeared on my search with good prices. I went ahead and bought the tickets for the trip and when received the confirmation noticed they had given me a different date!! I called immediately and was charged $200 to make the change. Not only that, they charged me twice for the same thing!! This is the first and last time I ever do business with this company!
Reviewed May 5, 2015
Please save yourself and do not use this company. The number on the website is fake. If you try to call it to complain you will never get thru to a live customer service rep, it will end your call. I bought 3 tickets to Texas and right after I submitted my payment on my debit card I immediately got an email confirming my payment and also my itinerary which had completely change 30 seconds after I submitted the payment with a 5 and a half hour layover. Mind you I have a 2 year old and I made SURE to only buy DIRECT flights both ways. I tried for 3 days to get this fixed with onetravel. After several failed attempts to get a real phone number or a live person I made a claim with my bank for fraud on my account because I was not getting what I bought.
By the fourth day united was finally able to find a real number for this 3rd party onetravel and after arguing for 45 minutes with a man that barely spoke any English I was given a refund.. I did purchase the fake travel insurance and the man told me I had to pay an additional 150$ to cancel the flight because it wasn't within 24 hours and I about lost it on him! I said it took 4 days to find a person that actually had a real number and the "insurance" said free cancellation. After he pleaded, begged and even tried forcing me to pay him any number under that 150$ to refund my money he finally did refund it for free and it was in my account 3 days later. Please do not go through the stress I did, use cheapoair or buy direct but do not use onetravel.
Reviewed May 2, 2015
Swiss had flights on Sept 11th from Athens to Zurich and a return on 19/20 Sept for 200 euros. This was a standard 'economy' outbound around 146 euros and a special price 'economy saver' of 54 euros inbound. However, OneTravel showed the same times and flights for around 132 euros - which looked like 'economy saver' both ways. However, when I tried to book, at the end I got a message to the effect that the seats had gone. The SAME flight with the SAME message that 3 seats were left was still on their website three days later. In view of other comments, I'm staying with reputable travel agents.
Reviewed April 28, 2015
On my return from Kenya to Minneapolis on 04/17/2015 on booking number **, I was at the airport one and half hour before my flight time but I was told I was late because they had changed flight time from 1830hrs to 1755hrs. And I wasn't informed, hence they ended up charging me $605 as late fee and re-booked my flight to be 04/19/2015. Is't fair to be charged yet it was the company's failure to notify me of the changes of which they didn't? Will I be reimbursed for I ended up losing my job for not reporting the exactly date I had promised? Secondly my one bag is lost with my items and it’s not yet traced up. Which is the way forward for the two issues please. I am easily reached on my cellphone ** or my email address **. Thanks.
Reviewed April 25, 2015
My experience with attempting to book travel reservations with Onetravel.com was THE WORST experience I have ever had in all of my years of traveling. I contacted OneTravel in an attempt to arrange flights for 8 people. We had found flights we were interested in online at a reasonable price and were hoping that Onetravel.com might be able to help us all book the flights together. From moment one, the representative ** was extremely rude and continued to remind me that it was taking so long and was so difficult because our group of 8 was not more flexible with dates and would not be considerate and accept flights that would take 18-30 hours (when there were options available that would take 8 hours or less).
After almost two hours on the phone ** the rude representative of Onetravel.com provided a price (which she swore was the best price we would ever get anywhere) that was over $200 more (for each flight) than the flights we had found. She further indicated that she had to work some special arrangements with the airline to be able to get all 8 of us on the same flights insinuating that the flights were full and that was why the price was so much higher than what we had seen online. When I asked if we could book 4 of the party at the original price we had seen on the website, she indicated that that price was no longer available and the price was now $100 more than what we had originally seen.
When I advised that I would not confirm the purchase of any of the flights without speaking with my party ** indicated that I needed to contact my party right then (at 11:00 pm) to get the ok. When I refused to do that she became very angry and even more rude indicating that I needed to book something with her because she had spent so much time "helping" me and that we at least should agree to book one way flights with her and then we could worry about finding return flights later. After the call, we continued to search for flights online, when we attempted to book 4 of the flights on Onetravel.com the order was blocked and soon after we received a call from ** at 11:30 PM asking what we thought we were doing, when we ended the call, she repeatedly called our home until we were forced to unplug the phone.
Just as an FYI - We were able to find all 8 flights, with the schedule and at the original price on another site who was happy to help and we saved over $1,600 and 20 hours of our life by not using Onetravel.com. Just FYI - Onetravel.com and CheapOair.com are the same company!
Reviewed April 20, 2015
When I booked both a return flight to London Heathrow and also to Sydney Australia I was told the prices were in Canadian dollars but upon checking my Visa I find I have been charged in US funds. I also was given the wrong return time although quoted a different one. Upon trying to contact them by phone and by live chat I am made to wait nearly an hour and then the connection was lost in both cases. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. An expensive mistake.
Reviewed April 19, 2015
This was the worst experience! Terrible and rude customer service! Not helpful! I needed to reschedule my flight for a later date, which you can only do over the phone. I had to call several times, wait for them on the phone, and wait for them for hours to call me back (which they never did by the way). Tickets went up in price or disappear while they were looking things up. One representative was exceptionally rude, he did not explain things well, was interrupting and yelled at me saying: "What is it that you want!" So, to reschedule I ended up paying more money than I originally paid for the ticket. I lost money, time and nerves. I'm never buying from them again.
Reviewed April 15, 2015
Rented a standard SUV for 1 week in Sarasota = $467.00 through ONETRAVEL from Alamo. My husband rented the same vehicle, same dates (same trip) directly from Alamo. His flight arrived 6 hrs later... $197!!! It took me three days for my blood pressure to come down enough to write this review without the expletives!!! **
Reviewed April 14, 2015
OneTravel sold me an invalid itinerary. I have used Kayak for years and I am one of their biggest supporters, but OneTravel (who I had never heard of before) sold me an itinerary to get home from Manzanillo to LA, connecting through Mexico City. When I got to Mexico City the airline said they could not honor the ticket OneTravel had sold, that it was invalid and did not meet the requirements of the airport or the airline. I have been stuck in Mexico City for 2 days trying to get someone to honor my ticket, and OneTravel has not responded to any of my emails, phone calls, or even attempts to chat with Customer Service on their website. They left us in a foreign country through a bogus airfare sale.
Please do not ever use them and spread the word. You can see negative TripAdvisor reviews of OneTravel, including many problems with them on airfares, etc., and some comments wondering why Kayak would refer their customers to this fraudulent travel agency. I have been in contact with my bank to dispute the fraudulent sale (services were never provided or received) and I will pursue them through any action (and social media) I can to resolve this and prevent them from harming other travelers.
Reviewed April 10, 2015
OneTravel posted a connecting one way flight from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas then Dallas to BWI for April 11th for a good price, so I booked. But while I was on the payment page, it timed out and thus, my original flight was now booked and it said it would charge me an extra $80 for a different flight. I let that go but quickly discovered they changed the date to have me fly back after the 11th. I called OneTravel immediately after it got booked and OneTravel did change the date. They didn't say they could help me with the fee. I was on hold for a while.
Today April 10th, I went on to check in. I discovered because OneTravel didn't put it in their system as a connecting flight, the airline they chose (Spirit) charged me $40 per connection for baggage fees. I had to pay $80 because of OneTravel's false advertising. I am so disgusted. In addition, Spirit wouldn't let me print both boarding passes because OneTravel didn't put it in as connecting flights, so I have to leave the security check point, go on trains, and go all the way to airport check in to print my connecting boarding pass. I am told if OneTravel put it in as a connecting flight, which they advertised the flight to be, I would not have encountered these problems.
I am angry because when I asked to speak to a supervisor after OneTravel's agent couldn't help, the supervisor wouldn't do anything either. He eventually said he'd issue $20 voucher which is nothing for my troubles. Not to mention, I already paid $80 in baggage fees and $80 dollars through OneTravel because of them changing their price at the payment timeout page. I'm extremely dissatisfied and I will not ever be recommending or traveling with OneTravel again. My original airfare was supposed to be $112 and I paid $160 in additional fees plus encountered a nightmare. My fees cost more than my original ticket.
Reviewed April 8, 2015
To understand how bad this was, my only worse flight was when we did an emergency landing after losing 1 of our 2 engines on that worst flight. Reservation was for a Frontier Airlines ORD to ATL flight leaving ORD at 4:50 PM. We arrived at ORD and went to ticketing to find that the flight did not exist and never existed. We also found that about 7:00 AM 1 1/2 days prior to our flight, OneTravel sent a change - as if there was ever anything to change - to an alternative email instead of the primary email from that was used to make the reservation and to which all prior emails were sent. I don't know why OneTravel asks for a phone number; they did not use it to notify us of any flight change. I don't know why.
That notification was allowing us to fly ORD to ATL at about 7:00 AM the day of our flight - 1 day after notification and about 1/2 day prior to our flight. If we wanted to fly out at about 7:00 AM instead of 4:50 PM, wouldn't we have made our reservation for about 7:00 AM? Frontier said that they would charge us $75 per person to change our booking to the next morning. Upon talking to a supervisor, Frontier waived the $75 per person fee and changed our flight to overnight ORD to DEN and DEN to ATL, getting us back in time for our morning appointments. A word of caution - Frontier has no airline that they have agreements with to help passengers with these types of problems. Driving Atlanta to Chicago and driving back Chicago to Atlanta - about 24 hours - would have been faster than the round trip we ended up with between Frontier and OneTravel.
Who did what? Did OneTravel book us on a flight that did not exist? Did Frontier cancel our flight? How did Frontier notify OneTravel about a cancellation of a flight that did not exist? Why was the notification 1 1/2 days prior to the flight when the flight did not exist way prior to that time. The only absolute in this fiasco is that OneTravel did not notify us at the booking email address so that we could have made an effort to resolve this problem. I Will NEVER Use ONETRAVEL Again. I will need a compelling reason to use Frontier again.
Reviewed April 8, 2015
I made this booking on Dec 3rd, for a return flight Feb 2, 2015 returning Mar 23, 2015. When I arrived at the airport this flight schedule had been changed three weeks prior and no longer flew on these dates. The day prior to travelling Onetravel sent me a reminder for my flight on Feb 2nd. I contacted them immediately, to ask for a refund as I was going on a tour and I had to fly that day. I booked with South African airways for these dates. So far they have made no effort to reimburse me and have referred my request to the waiver department which should have replied within 7 working days.
Reviewed April 6, 2015
This site is a scam, plain and simple. Their entire business model is to find a way to screw you over and keep your money. I purchased a ticket from OneTravel about 24 hours before the scheduled departure time. They sent me an email from their "fraud prevention department" [Which was my first red flag, I fly on a weekly basis and have never had to verify myself when purchasing a ticket before] saying that I needed to call them and provide a verbal verification of my identity.
Over the past 24 hours I have called them numerous times, been hung up on [reading other reviews on here, it seems that they like to hang up on people quite a bit], and despite providing all of the information asked for, still could not be verified. They didn't tell me this, though; they told me that I was verified, and I only found out that they never issued a ticket while I was checking in for the flight today.
Thankfully I showed up very early at the airport, because I anticipated something like this happening. After several more expensive international calls to OneTravel, being hung up on twice more, asking to speak to a supervisor and being put on hold for 15 minutes before being told there was no supervisor, they finally informed me that they could not complete the verification and thus could not issue my tickets.
This entire experience has cost me a lot of money, not only from the ticket booking cost (which it seems like they will fight tooth and nail to not return to me), but also from the unforeseen expenses of having to book another hotel room for the night and purchase another short notice ticket. I will also be missing several important appointments because of this.
I have been a frequent flier for the last several years, and this is unequivocally the worst ticket booking experience that I have ever had. I am appalled at the behavior of this company. From their website, I ascertain that their business is based in a strip mall (again, what??) in Las Vegas. I am reporting them to the Nevada Bureau of Consumer Protection, and encourage anyone else who has been wronged by these fraudsters to do the same.
Reviewed March 27, 2015
I recently booked a flight to Lisbon Portugal and I asked for a quotation in Canadian dollars and the amount charged to my MasterCard was in Canadian dollars and it stated that clearly on my purchase of my ticket. However on receiving my MasterCard statement, I was overcharged by $57.00. I phoned the Onetravel agent and the explanation he gave me was totally unsatisfactory and when I asked for reimbursement, I was told I would not receive it. Then I asked to speak to the manager and he put me on hold for half an hour without responding to my request. It was obvious that their service is outsourced to India and the gentleman was blatantly lying about connecting me to the manager as he had no intention of doing so. I will never use this agency again and would advice the general public to be aware of them.
Reviewed March 20, 2015
On a recent review of travel sites to book 2 flights to the UK out of Pearson international we came across one travel. Thinking it was a Canadian generated flight and the price was affordable we went ahead and processed two tickets and not seeing anything different we paid by visa. When we finally finalized the payment to our horror we were charged in U.S funds. The mention of US funds was not disclosed at no other time. Going down the list there was a number to call. Giving us the option to cancel but with $56 dollar fee, which we did, and after a long discussion they accepted our reasons for return. Here comes the good part, Visa charged us a fee of $168 all because One Travel did not inform us of the U.S payment.
Reviewed March 20, 2015
Please don't ever use this company. They are crooks! I missed my flight with my family of 5 two days before Christmas, when I call to rebook, they told me it was going to be $1000 for change fees. While it was a bummer, I thought not terrible. When I got my statement, they had charged me over $1700. When I called to speak with someone or a manager, they would keep telling me someone would call me back. No one ever did. I called 5 or 6 times with no luck. I finally disputed the charges with my Credit Card company and they couldn't reach them so they denied my dispute. I finally gave up and just ate the extra cost because it got too time consuming. I hate that companies like these are allowed to continue to operate.
Reviewed March 18, 2015
I recently booked a flight from Latrobe PA to Fort Myers, FL for a 10 day vacation. Because of a flooding emergency in my home I contacted the Customer Service Department to ask what the procedure was for rescheduling or cancelling a flight. I specifically stated I did NOT want to cancel, just a call for information. The attendant cancelled my flight! When I called 3 days later they told me that my flight was cancelled! I am so frustrated with their customer service, the horrible music, and the extremely long wait on hold to speak to people who do not offer any help. I will NOT ever deal with this company again!
Reviewed March 18, 2015
Was worst experiences I had. I made booking mistake, should be 16th Feb-- I made 16th march and I call them from Kathmandu to USA. They keep me lots of hold and to change this, they ask me $1400. The ticket was $1130, it's so funny. As per I am always trailing from Canada to most of Asian countries. I did even same mistake with flight network but they just charge me $60. Was 4 days left and here 1 month before. Another funny things the guy told me it's so full for 10-12 days when I checked in their web was available... just my request please please never ever try this web, it's worst in the world. NEVER EVER.
Reviewed March 16, 2015
Last Saturday, March 14th, I reserved 2 Premium Economy round tickets from Mexico City to Frankfurt from April 19 to June 20 2015, and the tickets provided were in ECONOMY: the cheapest fare. I tried several times to contact ONE TRAVEL, via email and telephone, and I had received NO ANSWER. I am really angry with the service of ONE TRAVEL and would like to inform the potential customers my experience!
Reviewed March 14, 2015
I booked a flight for my fiance from Luxemburg to Florida and month before the scheduled trip she wanted to be able to choose her seating assignment. I only discovered a day after booking the flight OneTravel does not permit you to do this without paying a $12 fee. I checked their "Terms & Conditions" policy and the only thing I could see was "All offers, prices, and conditions of sale may be subject to:" with seating listed in a subtopic. I don't think this has anything to do with seat selection. This is a scheme by OneTravel to squeeze a few more dollars out of you. Other online services such as Travelocity don't have this practice. I regret not doing a thorough research before using OneTravel. Lesson learned. I don't think I will be using their services again and I'll make sure my friends and family don't also.
Reviewed March 11, 2015
I book a flight on February 16, 2015 for a flight on April 2015. Unfortunately, I will be no longer able to travel on April 2015 and decided to call OneTravel.com to move my flight to July 2015 instead. The agent was very, very rude and impatient; condescending and disrespectful. She had the audacity to tell me that I was wasting her time, when I realized that she gave me a misleading price. At first she told me that the told cost for changes and penalties would be $200, to which I agreed.
To my dismay, I saw that $459 was taken from my account and when I asked her about it, she became rude and told me that I was wasting her time! This drastic amount for a flight to be moved from one date to the next is astounding and unfair. I have decided to report them also the Better Business Bureau. I grossly displeased with their service and will ensure that I made it known. NO ONE should purchase tickets through this travel agency. Their customer representatives are rude and disrespectful! I feel like I have been robbed... literally!
Reviewed March 10, 2015
The experience with OneTravel was very exhausting. Not only can one not understand the accent, but also they talk entirely too fast. (I guess as they say, time is money). They are not forthcoming with information concerning cancellations or any changes that might have to be made. Also I will add that conversing with the airline, American Airlines in this case, is almost as exhausting. I have not flown in many years, the changes that have been made are hard to comprehend. If one has to change the itinerary of the ticket in any way, they will charge $200 per person plus $25 for using a third booking party. I even think they would charge one's estate if one died. Praise the Lord. I can honestly say that at 71 years old, I WILL NOT FLY ANYWHERE EVER AGAIN. Nor will I use any booking agents ever. I will drive. I, and my heirs, are obligated to fly.
Reviewed March 5, 2015
We book a planned trip to Las Vegas, 3 months prior to travel date, and we purchase the travel insurance to avoid possible issues. My mom pass away a month prior our trip and we cancel the trip, and our nightmare was just beginning not to lose the money we paid. After filing the insurance claim, sent with mom's death certificate, and after 2 months waiting for a credit or my money back, this is the outcome: my mom's death does not qualify for insurance cover because she pass away out of the covered area and partial credit with American Airlines to be use within 1 year period.
We decide to use the credit to visit family and for my surprise, the credit available was reduce, and $200.00 per person penalty. I do have both emails with different policies same booking and I'll dispute. The insurance is to protect them, preventing customers to dispute charges with credit cards, you can't dispute with your credit card a denied insurance claim. Now I have both emails, and I'll dispute showing they change the story, not sure I'll get it. Feels like rip-off.
Reviewed March 4, 2015
Tried calling their customer support to get a name change, spent over two hours on the phone. Their website has an option to name change yet when you click on it, nothing happens. There is absolutely no way to talk to their customer service. Their live chat started off at an estimated wait time of 300 minutes and even though the time remaining was going down fast, it was stuck at 34 minutes for about two hours. I gave a one star only because I cannot give a lower rating. DO NOT USE ONETRAVEL!!!
Reviewed March 3, 2015
I had a horrible and disturbing experience with OneTravel.com on my last booking, and I feel that I have the duty to warn other unsuspecting consumers from these appalling practices that are in place. As a courtesy, I explain you to the situation so that OneTravel can consider this incident. My father is lying dying in New Zealand, and I needed to go as fast as possible to Auckland. Therefore, I tried to select a reputable company to book my flight to be sure nothing goes wrong.
I found a flight at OneTravel.com and booked it, then a while later, I got an email from the Credit Card Verification Department to call in for verification. This was no problem, so I called the provided number to immediately do this verification. First, I was disconnected twice, on the third time I got someone to assist. However, the person that answered said that they cannot just do a simply verification but require me to make a conference call with the bank. This seemed very strange and I never experienced this on any other sites. Due to the short timeframe before the flight, I agreed, and they called the bank; however, the bank department to which OneTravel needed to speak was not opened during the hours.
The OneTravel credit card verification person told me that this would not be a problem. I would simply have to call back once the bank is open at 6am EST, which would be after seven hours. I asked that this was a long time and if there is no other way to do this verification. I thought I could fax the passport and copy of the credit card or any other way to expedite this, after all, I would board the flight myself, and the creditcard is on my name which would make it very hard to commit any credit card fraud. I would have understood the concern if I booked for another person using my card. However, I was told that there is apparently no other way to do this. I explained again that I was worried to lose this flight because it is very important for me.
The OneTravel person assured me that I must not worry because OneTravel reserves every booking for 24hours so the flight is secure. To make sure, I called my bank Fraud department, which is open 24 hours and asked them if we can do a conference, and they explained that they could not do any verifications. However, they explained that OneTravel could simply run the card and then BB&T fraud department would do the verification immediately for them, and either approved or declines the charge and would inform OneTravel accordantly. My bank also was surprised on this need to verify the card since the card holder and traveler are the same person. I did call back to OneTravel to explain this, but they told me that they couldn't make exceptions to their rules. I stressed once more that waiting seven hours is a long time, and I am worried because the flight is already in less than 20 hours.
Again, I was ensured that due to the OneTravel, 24hour guarantees, it would not be a problem. They also explained that I could not book another flight before the verification, because I might be charged for both flights. The assurance from OneTravel, that my flight is guaranteed for 24 hours, gave me some false peace of mind. Therefore, I did wait until 6:10am EST for the bank department to open. At this time, I called back to One Travel complete this verification. After being on hold with OneTravel for 40 minutes, I was told that the bank department did not pick up the phone. To my surprise, the person at OneTravel Credit Card verification department said that it is no problem; we can do the verification different.
She said I simply need to send an email from the registered company email that clearly indicates the flight details, booking number, passenger name and a sentence saying that I authorize OneTravel to book of the amount. So after all this frustration and some nine hours later I was told that there is, in fact, another way to complete this verification. I was surprised and frustrated about this, but since I now saw the light on the end of the tunnel. Therefore, I gave everything they wanted and a while afterward I called in again to ensure the email was received and that this verification is in the process.
I was put on hold for 20 minutes in which time they apparently did some internal verification, and eventually I was then told that all was fine, and the verification process is successfully completed. However, after another hour I was called again from another person to do some random verification questions, I complied and the person said that now they had everything they needed and once more said all is verified to their satisfaction. I asked what is next, and I was told that I would get the E-Ticket in less than 30 minutes. I was happy finally having this tedious process behind me so that I can still catch a few hours of sleep before boarding the flight in seven hours to see my dying father one last time before he passes away.
However, after about 45 minutes, I was called again, and they told me that my flight, I had booked is now gone, apparently Malaysia Airlines would not give the flight. They said that they still could get me on this flight, but it would be roughly double the price now. I was disgusted on what I was told; it felt like some criminal is extorting money from me so that I can see my dying father one last time. I reminded the person that I was told numerous times that the flight was guaranteed 24 hours, and explained again the urgency on my need to get the flight. The person then changed the tune, and I was told the first time that apparently the reservation was guaranteed but not the price I received when I booked. This was the first-time anyone mentioned this misleading rule.
For me, this was devastating news, not only can't I see my beloved father and comfort him on his final hours, but I already arranged for Airport transportation in Malaysia and in Auckland, I paid a rent a car and hotel near the hospital. All this could not be canceled because it's only hours before the flight. I tried to find another flight but nothing is available because OneTravel.com wasted all the time on a verification that should have lasted minutes and instead took 10+ hours.
I already lost over RM3000 for my arrangements for airport transport, hotel and cent a car. This is not to mention that my mother depended on my support and that my father might be passed away without seeing his son one last time. All this is due to the misinformation, questionable business ethics and misleading guarantees that are used without mentioning the real facts. It seems to me that this is designed to keep the customer on the hock even though they knew it is most likely the flight might not be available anymore. There is no compassion; I believe that my distressed situation to see my father one last time, showed my desperation so that OneTravel may have thought I would easily pay double to make this flight. Maybe it was even planned to get more commission.
I do not understand why a site like OneTravel would not send a notice if a price of a reservation changes so that the customer can decide or cancel and book another flight. I was not able to pay more because I had so many expenses that there was not enough credit limit on my card at the time to pay double for the same ticket. OneTravel.com could not even offer any replacement flight that would have been anywhere near the initial price, because all this time was wasted, and flights were all full.
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2015
I canceled a flight and got a credit of 860 USD 5/11/2014, and Onetravel sent me a email says the credit is valid for one year. But now when I re-booking my flight, they say the credit is expired on 7/10/2014! I confirmed with an agent around 2/11/2014 and he said the credit is still valid. But now, what? Nobody acknowledges that! They are cheating me! And I really don't understand why Onetravel always puts the alternative, wrong date flight on the top with very low, attractive price. That was why I booked the wrong flight and have to cancel it for credit. I do feel they are doing this to sell the left-over flights, but THIS IS CHEATING!!! I will stay away from this website as far as I can. This is the website that cheated me 1000$!!
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2015
They did not provide the customer service they promised. I have been trying to contact them for over a week and every time I have to wait over an hour. When I finally connect they don't respond back or can't help me and tell me someone will contact me but never do. I have been trying to change my flight because I fly in a week but it is to the wrong location. They say they will contact you shortly but don't. Look at all the other reviews and check for fraud activity before you book. Also, if you write a review on their pages they remove any negative reviews and only keep the positive ones.
Reviewed Feb. 21, 2015
Be aware that prices shown at onetravel are in U.S. dollars. For a flight originating in Canada, I would not expect to be billed in Indian Rupees, British Pounds Sterling, or U.S. dollars. This is the 3rd time I've been tricked by a Las Vegas based business. Shady, deceptive business practices affect all online sellers. Booking directly at AirTransat.ca would have been cheaper. I will take it up with Air Transat, as this third party seller is operating under false business practices.
The OneTravel rep even stated that they have an equivalent Canadian webpage, and that if I had called within 24 hours of booking, he could have helped. There is technology in place, where a Canadian ISP entering US territory website will be warned or immediately forwarded to a Canadian website. A tiny clause (fine print) stating that prices are billed in US dollars (on your after-purchase receipt) is a shady way to exempt onetravel from litigation. If AirTransat does not meet my expectation, I will not fly with them again. As for onetravel, there is no excuse.
Reviewed Feb. 16, 2015
At the time that I was looking for cheap flights, OneTravel offered the best choice. It was the worst mistake I have ever made. My credit card statement has shown some hidden charges that I was not aware of. Worse, the customer service has no training and courtesy at all. I called OneTravel to request for a change of itinerary after a last-minute flight cancellation by the airline due to weather conditions. OneTravel told that they will email the new itinerary to me after a couple of minutes. After waiting for an hour, still no email. Since my new flight was supposed to be scheduled for the next day, I had to call them again. Then again, I was told that I will have to wait for a couple of hours to receive my new itinerary. After waiting for four hours, still no e-mail. Anxious, I called again. This time around, they told me that I will have to wait for at least 3 business days.
I told them that this would not be possible since my new booking reservation is supposed to be the next day and that I needed to get to my destination as soon as possible for health reasons. The agent said that they could not do anything at all and that I must contact the airline directly. After telling the agent that the airline advised me to contact them, the agent started blaming me for having checked-in online despite the cancellation. I told him that I was not aware of the cancellation not until an hour before the flight. Agent would not let me speak and kept on blaming me. I requested for assistance and he arrogantly said that there is nothing that he can do from his end to change my itinerary. I requested to speak to the supervisor and the agent refused. When I insisted, he hang up on me. I ended up seeking assistance directly from the airline. Never again will I use OneTravel!!!
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2015
I have booked my mom for a flight from Manila to Toronto via PAL through One Travel. It was so frustrating and unacceptable. Have mentioned to the customer rep few times to make sure he has put the remarked special request for a wheelchair for a partially blind senior passenger. Since it's my mom's first travel abroad, she was nervous and didn't know what to do, even I have informed her that she's on a wheelchair by the time she check-in.
So sad to know from mom upon arrival that she was never assisted and put on a wheelchair, therefore mom was nervous what and where to go after arrival... Lucky enough there are people with good heart who noticed that my mom is a first time traveler... How could One Travel missed to inform or put the special request on her ticket/system when it is a very important note. I have repeated many times just to make sure my mom's travel would be a relaxing and stress free travel? One Travel, what happened? I'll make sure I am not going to book a ticket with you again. It's so frustrating.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2015
Save yourself from the headache and agony of their terrible hold music. They offer cheap deals on flights but the service is much much cheaper than the prices they offer. I have been, and am still, on hold just to receive an itinerary which I require for my flight in 2 days and it still has not been sent to me. Just to get this itinerary, I was placed on hold for an hour only for the awful music to stop and tell me that this number no longer exists (what??!!). Now I am on hold again, I total I have been waiting for over 2 hours at this point just to get my bloody itinerary. Please spend the extra 100$ and get yourself the service you deserve. Might I add, I have paid an insane amount of money on this flight and I still have to go through this nonsense. Joke of a service!
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2015
I received my booking confirmation with flight and hotel information. When I called the airline two days before they did not have my seat assignments and they did not have my special meal. I then called the hotel to arrange for airport pickup and the Trump Hotel reported that we had no reservation in their system! I called OneTravel and they put me on hold for 70 minutes - no one at Onetravel could confirm our reservation. They have no person with responsibility - only a bank of phone agents who repeat back the reservation confirmation but can not problem solve.
Meanwhile the Trump Hotel was very nice, checking all their computer databanks and verifying that no reservation was placed. They offered to call Onetravel direct. So we are in the middle of our vacation with failed reservation service by Onetravel.com and failed customer service. It is now 3 hours later, during regular business hours, and OneTravel.com can not confirm our hotel reservation.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2015
Seriously THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS EVER! I called three or four times because I needed to cancel a flight. I was on the phone for almost 30 minutes waiting for the guy to change my flight so that I could get the same flight after having paid for a new flight. He ended up just canceling it after making me wait for that long because he was not able to make the change on his end. He told me I would get a refund confirmation email. The email I received only stated the insurance amount and not the full refunded flight amount so I called them back to find out why. The guy was so short and rude in his demeanor. I'm never booking with them again.
Reviewed Jan. 29, 2015
Anybody who is thinking of booking through One Travel think twice.. My flight from Tel Aviv to the UK was cancelled in July 2014. Since then I have been sending mails to one travel who either fail to respond or say they will deal with my complaint and never do. In short more than half a year has passed and I still have not been refunded for this cancelled flight. Be warned.
Reviewed Jan. 25, 2015
Save yourself time and energy. Just flush your "travel insurance money" down the toilet! If something happens and you need to cancel the trip insurance, you have TEN DAYS to do so!! READ ALL OF THE FINE PRINT!! Also, the ability to understand the person to whom you will be speaking is helpful, not easy, but extremely helpful. Also, there is a third party insurance involved. Any issues or debates are handled by them. I was told that this insurance company (Seven Corner's) was open 24/7. Not so. Voila! You are stuck!
The premium has been paid. The insurance is non-refundable. The ticket is non-refundable and all complaints must be made to Seven Corners which is unavailable. I consider myself a sucker to have fallen for this muse! I give this company an "F"!
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2015
Thought I was booking through airlines website. I was not! Bad on my part for not paying attention. Attempted to cancel immediately. Called customer service line and was hung up on. Called back and was put on hold. Used our other phone line and pushed 1 to talk to booking agent. They outsource to India. Insisted the booking agent to help me because I wasn't going to spend 2 hours on hold. He did help me and refunded their ridiculous fee and sent a cancellation request to airlines.
The fee they charge is $255.00 for you to type in all the same info you would type in the actual airlines website. Woke up this morning and added up the math and they kept $52.00 for booking fee. Currently on hour, so far... hold to discuss this $52.00. I might have to chalk this up to a lesson learned, but $52.00 is $52.00! That money could go for groceries, out to eat...etc. I am very happy I do not have to rely on them for our travel plans after reading all the reviews. So many hidden fees! I guess good thing for speaker phone, however I might need to plug in my phone, the on hold is eating up the battery.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2015
My hotel room was cancelled. When I arrived at my Hotel they re-charged my credit card. After a long process of getting things fixed... Two days later OneTravel re-charged my credit card and when I complained they told me it would be two weeks to credit me. My bank called to talk to them and they hung up twice on my bank. Use another company. Beware.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2015
I booked through Onetravel by accident as Airtran.com somehow redirected me to their site. Then I booked the wrong flight. I know, what a blunder. I immediately called Airtran to cancel the flight which they were OK to process since it was within 24 hours. They were unable to refund my money, however since I booked through a third party (Onetravel). After an extended time talking to India, Onetravel agreed to refund my ticket price, minus their fees of course... AND they charged me an additional $25 for their troubles. Book with the airlines directly, don't waste your time with Indian call centers like Onetravel.
Reviewed Jan. 12, 2015
I booked a ticket from Fukuoka Japan to Kathmandu Nepal 12/30/2014. Because of something, I canceled the flight on the next day 12/31/2014 with the $75 cancellation fee and $359.60 refund. But somehow it has been two weeks and I got a call from my bank about the bill. It hasn't been refunded yet. Please help me. I need my money back.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2015
We travelled to Guatemala from Nashville, Tn. On our way back, Onetravel.com cancelled our connecting flight to Nashville without notice. Since it was on a Sunday, there were no agents available to help us. Their emergency number was blocked. We could not get a hold of them. Since they were the ones that cancel the flight, American Airlines could rebook a flight but not until three days later with a $250 charge per person. We had no other choice than drive back home. I have been trying to get reimbursement, but their customer service agents just give me the run around. My advice, DON'T USE THEIR SERVICE!
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2015
Being an international traveler and not familiar with US airport codes, my flight was booked (via JetRadar - not a good experience either) from JFK to Logan instead of Manchester. When inquiring about flight changes the attitude was got me! The help desk simply informed me that changes are not allowed BUT I could cancel the ticket for credit subject to a penalty of $75.00! So, who are they fooling? The original ticket was for $89.00!! It will now still cost me the 'new' air fare plus the 'penalty' of $75.00?! And, this was for two tickets - one from JFK to BOS (should have been MHT) and the other for the return leg from BOS (should have been MHT) to JFK - both booked with OneTravel!
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2014
First when you call to ask for info nobody answers and when they do they are quick to transfer you!!! On the phone with them right now for over 3 hours and still going!!! If someone was to treat me this rudely in person, I feel I would resort to physical violence. They have the worst customer service in the business!!! I have patience but I can't take it any longer!!! Not once did a manager get on the phone with me, I wonder if they even exist??? They are quick to take your money but you will grow old waiting for them to respond to a blunder that they are responsible for------NEVER AGAIN!!!
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2014
We made the mistake of using this online travel agency to book air tickets from Beijing to Da Nang, Vietnam, mainly because they had the best price on offer and because it offered fairly direct routing. We also booked (separately) a week at a resort to coincide with the air travel. Almost immediately, we started receiving notices that 'the airline has changed the itinerary' and that 'airlines do this all the time.' As someone who travels on dozens of flights a year, I know this to be nonsense. I even contacted the Vietnam Airlines rep here in Beijing to confirm that the bookings were just fine as they were, but that since they had been made by a travel agency there was no way to change them or take over control by ourselves.
We ended up having to agree to an overnight in Hanoi (at our own expense) which meant that we basically forfeited a night at the resort. The notices which were sent were poorly worded and threatening - to the effect that if we did not agree to the changes we would lose the entire booking, without refund. When we awoke on the last day of our trip to head to the airport for a 7:00 AM flight (which would connect with our flight from Hanoi to Beijing), we received an e-mail saying that our itinerary had been changed and we would have to spend a night in Hanoi at our own expense. We ignored the message and went to the airport. The 7:00 AM flight was indeed cancelled, but we were well taken care of by airline staff who upgraded us to business on the next available flight and provided an escort in Hanoi so that we would be sure to catch our flight. All went well.
There is close to zero customer service, all options seem to be 'take it or lose everything.' The stress that we experienced in the lead up to this holiday almost cancelled out the benefit that we received. In the end, it worked out - but you can bet it will be the last time we use this service. Use Orbitz or Expedia instead, or directly with the airline.
The business model of this agency seems to be to entice you with a cheap fare for a specific itinerary, knowing that it cannot offer it, and then changing the itinerary to one which is possible with the price. Had we known it would take 15 hours to get from Beijing to Da Nang, we would have looked elsewhere for a holiday. I'm sure that if we had booked elsewhere (other sites showed the itinerary for $750 pp rather than $500), the original itinerary would have been honored. Very poor experience, unfortunately they will continue to operate as there will always be enough people (like ourselves) who don't always do their due diligence. If I could submit a review with zero stars, I would.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2014
I bought a ticket flight with LAN through the agency Travel One. This agency has changed the flight's date three times. Although I have scheduled a surgery in south america TRAVEL ONE did not want to leave the original schedule. Horrible agency. They told me if I do not accept their conditions I will lost the money of the ticket. I will hire a consumer attorney.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2014
I had the worst experience by making a reservation with One Travel. First I was charged 63$ which was not showed initially and when I put my credit card number it was shown in the receipt which I got in the email, which doesn't make any sense. Then I need to cancel my tickets and we had a deal that I will lose 350 dollars and get the remaining but 350 was extra charged to my account and 250 dollars were also deducted which was defended by saying that 350$ is company cancellation fee and 250 dollars is the airline cancellation fee. Meanwhile 63 dollars are out of scene. They were not counted while giving the money back. Worst ever experience.
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2014
We purchased our airline ticket online from Travel One for the family to be in Las Vegas for the New Year celebration. I received the confirmation email but did not open it. A couple of weeks later when I opened the confirmation as I needed to know the flight time, I noticed that the agency has changed our return flight to afternoon of December 31 and has given us 4 hours to call if we do not accept the change of date. I wish I knew how to go about suing Travel One for this scam.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2014
I purchased several tickets through One Travel at one time for my son and I, we were going home for Thanksgiving trip home, haven't been home a long time. Long story short I still haven't received my refund back after they said they will return it.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2014
Traveling for family emergency. Booked flight but no Record Locator given to me to allow me to get seats, check-in with airline, or arrange baggage check in advance. Chat attempts don't connect to their server. Emails go unanswered for days so far. Finally, after long time on hold, spoke with human who would "connect me to someone who can help instantly". It put me back in the queue, on hold longer and longer. Poor service - never again. I just hope I can get on a flight tonight. Stay away from this one.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2014
Booked a flight through online travel agency back in Feb. Used CC and paid for 3 tickets to Panama. Today decided to check at the airport and was informed United Airlines no longer flies out of Moncton. They in turn informed me to call the travel agency. Their response was they can only reimburse me for the funds. TEN MONTHS! They stated they tried to call (but anyone knows as soon as you hear this is Travel One or any other firm, we usually just hang-up) Not interested in solicitation. The E-mail was incorrect therefore they could not contact me. Whatever happened to SNAIL MAIL??? Anyways they will reissue tickets with different airline carrier for $1200 addition dollars. I had no choice until I got the itinerary in US dollars.
When everything is said and done for nearly $2000 additional dollars they can correct the incident. NO THANK YOU... that is nearly double the cost. No Panama for us this holiday season. Reminds me of "Bait and Hook"! One Travel and Cheap O Air are the same company. I called the different phone number for each, the computer said "I have noticed you have called already today..." I have lost any interest in booking with any travel agency since this has happened to me, today! Would like to make buyer beware to everybody I have affiliation with! Bait and Hook!!
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2014
Dishonest scammers. Had to cancel the flights for my elderly Mother. Got someone on the phone the first time, then they hung up after they told me to call the "Flight Insurance People" whom they recommended. I called a half dozen more times, busy or no answer. The flight insurance people were non-existent as well. Chalk it up to I lost $500 and that's what I would have saved on the ticket booking through these scammers. I hope they're turned off soon.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2014
I had a problem with a plane ticket I purchased. I called several times and the phone got "disconnected" EVERY SINGLE TIME. One of the time I heard someone picked up and Hang UP. I was on the phone with 6 different people for more than three hours. They were extremely unfriendly. Some were downright RUDE. I understand that I save a few bucks through onetravel.com, but I don't think the aggravation, unfriendliness, and the time wasted is worth it. I rather paid more and get treated with sympathy, respected, and understanding, something that ALL YOUR representatives seem to lack (and I spoke to 6 or more in one Day, including 2 supervisors).
While I am typing this I am actually on hold for over 15 minutes, this time I called, they said they would call back. They did, and I am on hold for 15 minutes!! MY GOD the phone got disconnected again!!! This last Hang UP was the finally incident. I wouldn't use this website again. Not worth it. Not worth it at all. I am actually extremely angry of the unprofessional. Extremely angry: on the phone for more than 3 hours, over 6 people, and 4 HANG UP. What more can I say!! Shame on ALL of YOU.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2014
This 3rd party agency is one of the worst companies I have worked with. Their customers service is more concerned about sales vs concern. All the steps involved. You have lost my business. I will rather pay more and deal with airline company directly.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2014
FRAUD: I booked a flight in Costa Rica with OneTravel.com. What I got was a flight with times that did not exist. I called the airline. It had no record of the seating. Lucky for me my travel companion caught the discrepancy in flight times.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2014
Worse booking site online. Trust me, once you book with them they will overcharge for ** stuff and say "No, you authorized it." Customer service is brutal, I think it's mostly like they are scam artists, rip you off. Cheap booking my **! Save your time and money and book somewhere else cause here you will pay way much than you think you would.
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2014
I have booked with them for a premium economy two seats in a round trip to New York and they charged me for that 1913 USD which is the same amount as if you booked from the west jet site directly. Anyway when I get there I was surprised that my seats are in economy and not economy plus. When I called the customer services the next day, they told me that their supervisor will call me to solve and return my money, but nobody called and the problem still there and each time I call them they tell me the same story that their supervisor will call me back but still nobody, so I think they are a bunch of thieves that nobody should book with them anymore.
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2014
Be aware that their system is set up to make sure you cannot go directly to the airline and book your seats. They charge 12 to 15 per person to book them for you. On an extended trip to South America, we booked around a dozen flights. I used One Travel for several hops through Brasil and was perfectly happy with the booking experience and their rates. If you do not care about seating or have any other issues like needing a wheelchair, which I do in large airports, this is fine. You take whatever seats are available when you get to the airport. However, if you really need to have arrangements for assistance or seats ahead of time, you cannot do this if you book through this service. I really need to have window seats that recline when I fly for more than an hour in order to take the stress off my back.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2014
My wife tried to change a dodgy booking that One Travel already had set up. It was going from Melb to Sydney then to Hawaii, but the layover time was only one hr. We didn't know Sydney airport, but there is no way we could get from the domestic terminal to the international & get through customs with our disabled son within an hour. Also in their own terms & conditions they state it should be 3 hrs before you catch a international flight. The supervisor Sherwood has hung up on us & has also lied to us about the manager calling us. This company needs to be more proactive in helping the customers, not treating them with contempt.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2014
I went online and looked at a Washington/Milan-Venice/Washington flights for 2 of us. The quoted fare was like $2,900 +/- When I put all my information in (including credit card), it gave me a rate of $8,000 something. I was shocked and there was an area to refuse the booking which I immediately did. Why not tell me that before I put all my credit card information in? Well someone (NY # phone but an Indian-speaking person) called me forthwith. His explanation was that US Air and American were merging which caused a system error. I was a little perturbed in that he was able to get me still a good rate of $1,499 for each of us but still about $50 +- more than the original amount on their website. If he went over the $1,500 mark, I would have refused and continue to look elsewhere. It probably is a scam but being I was satisfied with the flight cost, I went ahead and booked us.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2014
I wanted to book an online flight but there was no option to add a lap infant, so I called the company to inquire about how to proceed (not wanting any problems with my first flight with my baby). The customer service agent, Tat, was rude and not communicating effectively with me. Eventually, I booked the flight online and ended up having to call the airline itself to add the lap infant to the itinerary. Will NEVER use One Travel again, even if they do have the lowest prices...
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2014
ONE TRAVEL is a company to stay away from. Do not plan or book any trip with them unless you want to waste your time and your money. I have been battling with One Travel since 11 am (eastern time). It is now almost 4 pm and the issue hasn't been solved yet. Stay away or you'll regret it. They will let you book a trip and call you the same day of your travel to tell you the pricing has changed and you have to pay more.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2014
Onetravel has hidden fees (35$ to reserve your seat on the plane, when you can do it for free with the airline). It also costs more to buy from them than to just go directly to the airline's website and buy direct. Ended up paying 10% more for the ticket because I was stupid. Don't be stupid. Go directly to the airline site. Stay away from Onetravel (aka: cheapOair).
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2014
Like many others I was happy to find tickets matching the times I needed. The reservations got changed, the refunds not given, aggressive and rude customer service. But this is not why I'm writing the review. Please all of you take the time to file in complaints against this company with the actual airlines. Onetravel makes their money using those companies and if many of us make them aware, maybe they will stop doing business with them and others like it. Social media, flood their page with your experience.
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2014
Onetravel rep told me that airline would charge me to get assigned seat. Onetravel was going to charge me to do that. I don't think I let them, but turns out the airline told me they do not charge to assign me a seat!!
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2014
I bought my flight tickets along with travel insurance protection which they advertise you are able to get full refund in case of cancelling. I end up had to cancel it but they never gave me the full refund. I called up the insurance company and they don't acknowledge the policy. I am very angry about Onetravel being dishonest to their customers! And also they outsourced their customer services to India and I had to wait almost an hour every time I called them. It is absolutely unacceptable! Stay away from this company and you will have a peace for you mind!
Reviewed Oct. 23, 2014
One Travel-One Trouble. I am a doctor and like to get lowest price to travel. On the search engine I was directed to ONE TRAVEL- One Trouble dot com. The search engine showed the best price for the onetravel.com, for about $860. To buy this ticket from them, I had to enter flight's route, dates and CREDIT CARD information to purchase this ticket for that price. I clicked and was given instruction to call the onetravel.com free phone number with my reservation code. When I called, the lady with the Indian accent informed me the price of that ticket is gone up to about $400. I asked if my credit card was charged, she said "NO." I said "I do not want to buy the ticket for this high price." She said she will look for better deal and changing the dates. I said to email her findings to my email.
The conversations with the clients supposed to be monitored. When I found not expected charge on my statement from ONETRAVEL.com for $1,169.76 I called their 800 428-8821 that was provided by my card on 10/20/2014. I called ONETRAVEL FOR NOT AUTHORIZED CHARGE. In the beginning the agent said that it looked as a mistake and transferred me to her supervisor, then to his supervisor that said his name was Sherwood. All agents had an Indian accent. I know some very good and smart Indian man, computer professor in the University of Hawaii. He told me to be careful with the Indian men to do business with. Is no much ethics there and millions of women is got raped in India. I had no idea this was an Indian outsource operation.
I had very long hold time to reach the Mr Sherwood. I have categorically refused to buy their tickets. It had to be on the tape. I didn't know till getting my credit card statement that my card was charged without my authorization. I did mentioned to Mr. Sherwood that it is a fraud. He said "you gave a credit card information yourself, therefore it is not a fraud." I gave the credit card information for the different days and much less price. Is no refund from them. I contacted fraud department of my credit card. The investigator told me that they have legal contract that prices can change and when you put your CREDIT CARD INFORMATION to their site, YOU'RE HOOKED to buy their ticket even price is changed. You buying an estimated price. This scam company have to be banned from the operations.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2014
Pulled up on Google the name of the local airline. The name of the airline was big and bold, had no idea it was not the actual airline site. Made flight to Dallas TX and everything including my Visa payment with thru within minutes looked like no problem. Until I received my confirmation minutes later and noticed the flight date was wrong. Started calling customer service to get it changed.
First call, could not understand man's name. Took all my info, put me on hold and of course disconnected. Called back second time, different man. Again, got all my info from me, put me on hold, came back minutes later and told me to call back in an hour. Called back third time, talk to Anna. Again "computers were down please call back." Fourth time again "computers are down, please call back." I have called from 8pm to 11:40 pm. Did I mention these calls are going overseas to India? Very hard to understand.
I started to get an uneasy feeling and pulled up the One Travel on Internet. Much to my surprise there are sites warning people of this company. I called my credit card company and put an alert on my account. Then I called the local airline and made a reservation for the correct day. I want nothing to do with shady people like this. I was willing to lose my money for this booked flight. This lesson cost me $117.00. So to have to not deal with this aggravation I say keep the money. Good riddance.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2014
Charged twice for handling fees. No travel insurance as requested. Did not make arrangements for seating together. I purchased travel insurance for $116.00 instead of $72.50.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2014
First of all the subject travel has been our routine for the last 14-15 year. For the three years prior to that I flew there alone. I am a service connected disabled Vietnam era Veteran. Booking with your service was the biggest booking mistake we ever made. We travel to Russia from Phoenix Arizona every year. It should also be noted that upon check-in at our departure point every supervisor and manager on duty tried to fix your mistake to no avail. They all tried to override or change codes to allow our luggage to be check through to our destination.
The agent that booked our flight booked the outbound portions in segments to save a dollars or less; they did this to get our business. This turnout to be a very expensive lesson and I assure you won't happen again; this incident ended up costing us over one thousand dollars in additional baggage fees alone and being on a fixed income really impacted our lives. Not only was it expensive it really raised the anxiety level between my wife and I.
Six bags we had to pick up and check-in each time we stopped. That's not all; each time we stopped we had to redistribute the weight in each bag. We arrived to JFK from Phoenix and the airline met me with a wheelchair. We collected all bag and transportation was arranged to move my wife and I to the International Terminal. We had a four hour layover and no place to relax, which was fine, we weren't promised comfort and we have had worse. When the airline started the check-in process we were among the first in line, however we had to move aside and redistribute the weight in all bags; this took an hour. After we were done redistributing the clothes in our bags we were among the last to clear security. We paid $580.00 PHX, $435.00 JFK and $280.00 DME. We should have only had to pay the $580.00 PHX.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2014
I am very unhappy with the online travel companies. I complained about CHEAPOAIR. Now I am complaining about One Travel for the very same reason. This company is posting good flight deals online but when I go to book them the price is much, much more. Tonight I went to book a flight from DTW to STX for two round trip leaving DTW on 3/14/2015 and coming back on 3/25/2015. The price was quoted for $1073.40 but once I pressed book it, it became $1953.40. It certainly looks like a bait and switch to me. I wonder how many go ahead with it not noticing the price increase.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2014
Purchased two round trip tickets and made a car rental. The information we inputted (names) was correct and double checked by us. However, when we checked the e-tickets and itinerary, the last name was missing the first letter. When we called within the 4 hour period, they said we had to pay more money because the ticket had gone up in price because they had to re-issue new tickets. However, we had checked with the airline who stated that the price had not gone up. Totally a scam from the outsource location in india. Will never deal with onetravel again!!!!
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2014
DON'T BOOK WITH THIS WEBSITE!!! They emailed me numerous times trying to change my itinerary or they would cancel my ticket and "refund me". I had booked and paid for this round trip a couple of months ago, but my Dad died 10 days ago, so this trip turned into a funeral trip. I received a call from a Travel One Rep (out sourced in India) one hour before I was leaving for the airport, the Rep told me "frontier has cancelled your flight, the ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS TO ACCEPT A REFUND". I had just confirmed my flight with Frontier directly, and I was all good to go. There was no way I could cancel this ticket. In talking with the customer service rep, she was very rude and kept telling me to calm down. I was not crying nor did I have my voice raised, but I was just so confused as to why they would be so adamant about canceling my reservation. After much stress, phone calls, and yes tears, I eventually got on my flight. Frontier agents told me this booking website is very shady and they have experienced many problems with them. So please don't use them!!!
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2014
I bought my son and his fiance a trip to the Bahamas and started receiving alerts that airline had made changes to itinerary. It appeared you had to accept these changes. Recently I discovered that their return date was a day later. Had I not checked they would have been in the Bahamas with nowhere to stay that last night. Today I received another alert stating the airlines was making another change. This would put them a day late. The resort is booked. They are planning to get married 24 hours after arriving which is Bahamian law. On today's alert I read it very closely and it appears that they are offering the change. You can accept or not! This whole business has totally confused us. Cost me an extra night at resort and nearly screwed up the wedding plan. When I called them, I found out that they are outsourced to India. Major hold time and difficult to understand! I will never use them again!!
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2014
I had to repurchase a new international ticket in Feb. 2014 just before I traveled to avoid the snowstorms. I asked Onetravel.com whether I could use the credit of the old ticket. The answer was yes. The credit was $637. Then they sent me an email to confirm the credit. If I ever use the credit, I have to pay the $300 for using the credit. Still, I have $267. Now 7 months+ later I am ready to use this credit to buy a ticket costing $323. One would think that I just pay nothing to purchase the new ticket, right? Guess what happened? Number 1: I called them several times today. Each time when I called, the credit kept dropping. Finally, It dropped to $540. Take the $300 out, there is $240 credit left. When I was ready to purchase the new ticket with the $240 credit, Onetravel.com said that I have to pay another $300 for purchasing the new ticket. Now if I am to buy the new ticket, I would have to pay out of my pocket another $383. This is a highway robbery.
What Onetravel does is to try to prevent you from using any credit at all. By calling a few times and asked some questions, I found out that this company is not an American company. It is an Indian company. All the reps who answered my calls were from India. I am not born in America. But in countries like India and China, many websites are full of crooks. Onetravel.com is one of them. Buy tickets from websites owned by Americans. Or buy directly from the big airlines located in America. Stay away from Onetravel.com. If you buy tickets from websites owned by Americans and you are cheated, at least you know that you are cheated by fellow country people not by faraway crooks located in India. They just want to suck your money.
Reviewed Sept. 24, 2014
I had booked a ticket online and had the understanding that they provide the best prices. The ticket in the next hour become $200 cheaper for the same flight and same days and when I called them and asked them to check they said the systems were down. I called them 4 times to in a span of 4 hours and got the same reply. Eventually they said they will not be able to help me.
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2014
Each and every time I book with this company I have always experienced problems. I am a student and I chose to purchase flights with this company due to the airline fares they offer. However, with the money I've lost each time I might as well have purchased a first class ticket somewhere else. The first time I booked a flight with them was 3 months in advance for a flight from London to Istanbul with AtlasJet for the 12th of July. Their policy is that if you cancel within a certain number of hours within purchasing your flight they will refund it. I called and a recording came up directing me to follow the prompts if my flight was not within 7 days. I followed the prompts and entered my booking number to cancel my flight. The next day I followed up by calling to double check to see if the flight was cancelled and gave the same booking number. The representative reassured me it was cancelled. I proceeded to then book a flight with British Airways through Cheapoair for the 13th of July. A week later I received an email informing me of a double booking conflict with my flights.
I then called them many times after that and was transferred to multiple representatives and supervisors. The end result: the representatives told me the previous flight was not cancelled, and since I had proceeded to book with a different airline there was nothing they could do and I would have to take it up with the airline myself, which I knew would be a waste of time and come to no avail and to top it off, I'd end up having to call them between the hours of what would be 2am - 10 am in my current time zone and pay long distance fees.
The second time was a flight my parents booked for me, this time with Pegasus airways coming back from Istanbul to London (we booked a month in advance for the same reason - we thought we were getting a good deal). As Murphy's Law would have it, my visa has not arrived in time for the flight tomorrow. We went to a travel agent last week, they said we'd have to call Pegasus since we didn't book with the agent. I called Pegasus yesterday and they said there was nothing they could do since we booked with Onetravel. My parents called Onetravel yesterday willing to pay extra to change the ticket, which they said was fine. The price they said to change the ticket to a fixed date is the same price as a new ticket!! Today we went to another travel agent who couldn't even see the booking and hence was also unable to do anything. I've spent over $400 on tickets with this company for flights I didn't even fly on and didn't even get any of my money back.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2014
We booked a flight using Onetravel in Jan 2014 departing on Aug 30th from Paris CDG to MCO in Orlando, Fl. The original reservation was changed by the airline and Onetravel notify us that it will re-booked us for an earlier flight. We got the new reservation with seat numbers. When we arrived at airport to check in, Air France our carrier told us that the ticket number submitted is not valid. We called Onetravel several times and was put on hold so many times that we spent at least 15 Euro on phone cards to get it cleared up. To make a long story short, the earliest this travel agency can get us back to our destination is Sept 3. We spent at least 600 extra Euros for hotel, cab fare and meals because of the inefficiency of this travel agency. The supervisor promise to submit my hotel bill to the management for reimbursement but I doubt I will see a single cent back. If I do then I will give them some credit. Otherwise, beware of this travel agency. The small amount of discount you get might cost you lots and lots more.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2014
After I purchased airline tickets with OneTravel (which is now Cheapoair, the same company although they advertise as though they were separate) my credit card has been fraudulently used to the tune of $20,000 for all travel-related purchases (United tickets, Delta vacation package, etc.). I tried to alert One Travel by phone, but after holding for 44 minutes I gave up. Thanks to VISA I managed to clear the fraud. But I will NEVER purchase tickets from either of these companies.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2014
I booked a flight nearly a month in advance. Everything went well. I was given a confirmation, flight info, even seating info. However, a day before the flight, I go to confirm my flight and it's scheduled for a month out & I was charged $200 and told I made the changes when I didn't. Well, I have a flight but I can't get my money back. Don't use these idiots. It's obviously not always best to go cheap and trust me after this experience, I will definitely remember this.
Reviewed Aug. 14, 2014
Onetravel sends me emails regarding lowest airline fares. I finally try to book a reservation for two and find you cannot do more than one person. So I phone telling them what I need and quoted the price from my email. The agent takes the info including credit card info. I ask "what is the grand total for two people?" He quotes "$705.40" and promises a follow up email with the reservation info in an hour. I had to call back three times to finally get a copy of the reservation where $885.40 was charged to my credit card. Needless to say I called back asking why.. "I was informed the airline taxes etc had changed". This was a lie as I have checked the next day (this was suppose to be a two day sale) and guess what the price has increased $1.00....... well well well.
To sum up this horrid experience with Onetravel they have made a refund and this only took many more phone calls of which went to India.... I was informed there was no way I could talk to anyone in the USA. I then requested an email confirming the refund.... Four more phone calls to finally get the email. What a nasty experience with this company. I have unsubscribed to this tacky, untrustworthy and unfriendly company.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2014
This lying company charged my account almost 400 dollars and they ran my credit card. The charge was supposed to be for 200 dollars. I get my statement it's almost 400 dollars. I don't know what other charges they added on without my permission and when I contact them, they claim I accepted the terms and won't give me a refund without me sick with cancer or life threatening injuries. They are scam artists and will deceive you and charge your card without your permission.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2014
Many people complain about the fact that the website isn't friendly or that they add additional charges unto your bill when you book. My complaint is quite bad and I actually was thinking of taking some action against them. I booked a ticket from Italy to Fort Lauderdale on June 6 to travel on July 22. I understood that the ticket was non-refundable but I verified that I could change the ticket for a cost (which I could). I called OT on July 20 and was not successful in getting through to them. I had an online help desk chat with representative and we changed the ticket from July 22 to 29 for an additional amount. She confirmed this in the chat and it ended. I received the new itinerary as well as the information asking me to confirm that the charges were fine. I consented. Unfortunately, the story does not end there.
On Wednesday (day of the original flight), I tried to access my booking on their site - the new information was not there. I sent the representative an email and she did not send a reply. I called and was kept on hold for one hour and eventually decided to send an email for a response in a couple hours as they noted on their website. They responded on Saturday (4 days later) with the following response: "We would like to inform you that your flight was booked for 22-July and 23-July. However, you did not board the flight and as per the airlines fare rules your booking is completely non-refundable."
I called them immediately and spoke to a gentleman and he informed me of the same thing. Eventually, he told me that the chat was disconnected (even though I received her final salutation in the chat) and she did not get her agreement. When I told him I knew nothing of this, he mentioned that she also emailed me to say "I accept" and I didn't reply. I rebutted all of his information by noting that I had an email of not only my response to her but her confirmation of my acceptance via the credit card charge and the new itinerary. He noted that the card was not charged (which it wasn't) but asked for all the emails so he could refer it to his superiors. He noted I would be contacted in 24 hrs.
They did not call. I called Monday after that and the same gentleman answered and said someone would call me that evening. No one called. I called Wednesday and the person on the line, a gentleman, quoted the same "You missed your flight policy" and I explained the situation. He put me on hold for a long while and then said that kind of complaint takes a long while and no one was in the department. I got upset and asked to speak someone else and he noted that no one else was there and kept repeating the same no-show policy. I called back the next day and spoke to another representative who quoted the same policy, and then put me on hold with a refusal to rectify their mistake.
I asked to speak to her supervisor who was more helpful. I told her the situation and she understood as she realized that there was no way I would not have not shown up for my flight if I knew it was not changed. She rectified it and gave me a date - it was the cheapest date I could actually afford to change my ticket to due to the fact that I was now two days overstayed in Italy. As I write this, I am still in Italy. One Travel has not apologized or even tried to make it right. I would not have been here this long if it were not for their mistake. I cannot afford to be.
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2014
I booked a flight in February for September 2014. My stopover was Seattle to see family, my only fault in this is I did NOT check my itinerary closer immediately. It was when I had a problem, we had issues and I discovered how much those issues would cost me. My fare was initially 100.00 less than what was charged me, which I found out from one of the airlines who was kind enough to send me the itinerary, because One Travel did not. But I had to change my reservation to get off and my layover point which was supposed to be Seattle going both ways and come to find out it was not. I'll accept that blame but it cost me 2200 to learn that lesson to fly to and from Seattle from Baltimore with 7 months notice and the flight they charged me the changes rates for, has been changed twice since that time.
My boyfriend who is terrified to fly to begin with, is now mortified to go to the airport and have any dealings with this company due to the poor reviews and our own experience of no customer service, over charges and just poor booking. IT appears these things are done intentionally for fare increases to make the company more money, but that is difficult to prove although the company does have a history of doing this. I will never deal with them again and have gone so far as to file with the federal, state and aviation commissions.
Reviewed July 30, 2014
I have booked through OneTravel many times and have always had positive results. The one time I had an issue, we had booked a hotel in Amman, Jordan and the hotel had no record of our reservation. I paid for the hotel again and then immediately emailed OneTravel. They refunded the full amount paid without any issues.
Reviewed July 29, 2014
I spent a lot of time researching round trip tickets and thought One Travel had the lowest price. I booked my trip, but a few hours later another site had discounted the same trip. I immediately sent an email to One Travel to discuss their price guarantee and possibly getting a small rebate. No response to my email. Resent the email - no reply. I then went to their site and used their Customer Service form and finally receive a response basically telling me that they are a travel agency and negotiate prices with the airlines.
I specifically sent them the cost of the same trip the other site was offering and asked them about their rebates. No mention of this in their response. Rip off artists and cheats. Was my first time using them, NEVER AGAIN! Stay away from this "travel agency". Once they get your money, they offer no rebates or explanations about their LOW PRICE GUARANTEE. They do not know what customer service is!
Reviewed July 29, 2014
I booked a flight with US Airways through Onetravel.com. As with other online providers, I entered flight route, dates and credit card information, then clicked to confirm the reservation. The next page that opened showed an amount that was almost 400 dollars higher than what I had just authorized! Luckily for me, there was a credit card hitch, and I was thus able to cancel the payment. Oneworld.com called me within minutes (someone from India), trying to get me to book again. I inquired what had happened and was told that the price of the ticket must have gone up between me authorizing the payment and they sending me the confirmation. In a time span of two seconds! My advice is: If you want to rip me off, at least do it intelligently. I booked elsewhere.
Reviewed July 15, 2014
I just recently used this online company to book a reservation and thought that I was getting a great deal. However, it turned out to be a nightmare! OneTravel's computer system conveniently switched my dates for departure and arrival and when I received my itinerary, I called to let them know of the error. Unfortunately for me, CUSTOMER SERVICE WAS THE WORST! The wait time to talk to an actual person was 39 minutes. Then I was switched around and finally got to a "Manager" which told me they could do absolutely NOTHING :-( I received no help at all from this company! I had to end up calling Frontier Airlines direct to get some help. Then I ended up paying even more money because they said OneTravel is a separate company from them and I would have to dispute with them directly.
I was so disappointed with the fact that this company didn't want to take any actions of responsibility to rectify the error. It wasn't like I was trying to get a refund. I simply wanted my dates That I requested in the 1st place! A simple correction, and they would've had a happy customer. But now, I'm recommending to everyone I meet NOT to use this agency! They are THE WORST!
Reviewed July 11, 2014
I always book the flight with reputed travel websites but my wife found this Onetravel site offering lowest cost tickets. I was happy that I was able to get the best possible price for the ticket to India. My itinerary was as given below:
New Delhi - Frankfurt (Germany) - Dusseldorf (Germany) - New Delhi(India) - Lufthansa.
While everything went fine and my travel from US to India was uneventful. The problem came when I went to airport for catching my return flight. At the check-in counter, I got a shock as airline was not allowing me to fly as they informed me that I need an in transit visa. As I live in Indianapolis, I had made further travel plan from Chicago to Indianapolis like booking the hotel and car based on this return date.
Now I contacted Onetravel and they were not ready to take any responsibility for not informing about this visa requirement at the time I was booking my flight. First I would not expect to see any itinerary that involves a visa when my intention is not visit that country. If at all that was shown, I expect them to show clearly on the details of the flight that it would need a visa. Apart from the mental trauma that I gone through I suffered financially - I had to pay full cost of return ticket ranging in $800 and also I lost money in my hotel/taxi bookings. I am sad to see the irresponsibleness of the company.
Reviewed July 8, 2014
Company is making fake bookings for rooms not even available then not notifying customers that they have no reservation. Completed my booking on Onetravel.com for a reservation for 2 nights w/ car rental. Received confirmation booking, then a week later get notified my card could not be charged so the hotel portion wasn't booked? Not sure why the card would be declined, let alone why just the hotel portion would be cancelled and the car rental remained if my card was truly declined (which I knew it wasn't). Then I asked why I couldn't just provide my card information again and he stated I would need to rebook online and he would cancel my car reservation, but there was a penalty which of course sounded ridiculous so I asked if my card was declined how would I be penalized and charged? He then agreed and cancelled it so I could rebook without a fee after I argued with him.
I re-booked my reservation, received my confirmation email, etc. and decided to do some checking on the car rental just to be sure since I was skeptical of Onetravel.com at this point. The car rental agency then indicated the car reservation was around $15 more than what my confirmation from Onetravel said even though the terms & conditions for Onetravel said it included taxes and fees (just not extras - which I didn't have). So I emailed Onetravel asking them why this was, and they responded several days later with a generic email cancelling my car reservation portion of the reservation only. Nothing else, no inquiry as to if that is what I wanted or anything.
Okay fine, I would rather book it myself at this point since I am done dealing with Onetravel as they have over a 40-minute hold time every single time I call and clearly they cannot communicate via email for my customer service requests. So then today I decide to double check my hotel portion since I had not seen my card charged for the amount of the hotel yet which I found odd and sure enough, after waiting for 45 minutes, they inform me the reservation was cancelled because my card could not be charged. I asked for the code that was returned on the card declination and then after speaking with a supervisor (Carl) he indicated the real reason was because the hotel was overbooked and the hotel wouldn't honor the price that Onetravel had on my booking confirmation so they cancelled it and just said, "Your card wasn't charged. What's the problem?"
The problem is, it is now 2 weeks later and I have no reservation, they didn't notify me, and now the prices are double or triple as the date is quickly approaching for my trip. I was trying to speak with his manager, but when he said his manager's name was Rufus **, I knew it was going to be impossible to get any type of service from this company as he was full of it. So not only did they not notify me I had no reservation, they are still, TODAY, listing that hotel as available and they have told me the hotel will not honor their prices so they just tell the customer the card cannot be charged. I asked why they were doing this and he then repeated, "Your card wasn't charged, what's the problem?"
This is absolutely ridiculous. I am glad I have no reservation with them although it is costing me twice as much to book a room now because it is now two weeks later and the prices have shot up, but hoping others don't end up getting to their destination to find out they actually have no reservation after all. Stay far away from this website Onetravel.com and their company WK Travel.
Reviewed July 1, 2014
I'm writing on behalf of a friend, as she rarely uses the internet. She booked a return trip overseas flight. They scheduled her return trip with an 18 hour layover rather than put her on the next connecting flight home. Why would anyone do this? The information sheet they allowed her to print off didn't specify anywhere that this was the case. She had filled in the information using my exact flight information so we could travel together, so she had no reason to think they'd booked anything else.
The printed sheet direct from their site promised easy 800 customer service - then gave absolutely no way to contact them. Their first phone number gave me a message saying, "We cannot answer the phone now. Please call back later." This is totally unacceptable to a traveler stranded in an airport. When I found a number using the internet on my smartphone (which was NOT an 800 number), we spent a long time on hold... getting a customer service operator who immediately left us on hold again for ten minutes... who passed us to another agent who once again put us on hold for ten minutes..... This went on and on.
When someone finally spoke to my friend, she was rude, and simply informed us that it's not their fault and they'll fix it for another charge of nearly $500. Their cost for providing her the same exact ticket I had was $500 more than what I purchased anyway. Yeah, buyer beware, but they had obviously made plenty of money already. When we finally got to a manager - all of which was happening during my layover, leaving me wondering if I'd miss a plane, too, as a result of this - he was reluctant to give his name, and was again rude, and simply insisted she must have booked herself for an 18 hour layover.
When I took the phone to speak to him, I said, "Hello." Silence. "Hello?" Silence. I said hello probably 7 or 8 times, and finally said to her, "I think he hung up on me," at which point he finally said, "Oh, are you talking to me?" I simply cannot imagine how this can be anything other than someone playing games. Yes, the two of us are on the phone together, who ELSE would I be saying hello, are you there? to over and over and over? Keep in mind, this is happening with a time limit to catch a connecting flight to get home to my children who would have been home alone overnight had I missed it, as I was expected home and their father was going to be at work.
I stressed, without yelling, to the man that this is a 70-year-old woman who is recently out of chemotherapy and has diabetes, that she clearly would not have booked herself an 18-hour layover at the end of a 2-week trip overseas! They made a mistake, that's okay, but they need to stand behind their company and fix this; that I run a small business myself and would do so. He simply informed me that they couldn't possibly have made a mistake. End result is my friend had to spend the night in an airport halfway across the country. These people should be out of business. This is appalling.
Updated review: July 2, 2014
Onetravel has offered to reimburse me for having to change a flight in order to board my pet.
Original Review: June 30, 2014
I needed to book tickets from Canada to South Africa for myself and my dog. When I spoke to several Onetravel agents before booking, I specifically told them that (1) I was traveling with a dog and (2) I needed to book return flights (as per visa requirements) but that I wanted to be able to change my return flights. I was told that I could change my flights for a fee, most likely between $150-$250. I thought that was fine so I booked the cheapest flights despite the fact that the return flights would take nearly 48 hours.
Long story short - after spending at least 5 hours on hold with airlines and Onetravel - my flights can't be changed. After finally accepting this, I tried to book my dog on my return flights. It wasn't a problem getting him on my Air France flights but Westjet told me that they couldn't book my dog on my last flight because Onetravel was preventing them from allowing my dog to travel with me (because apparently that counts as a "flight change").
I'm on hold with Onetravel right now. I just spend 45 minutes on hold and then they hung up on me. Hopefully someone will answer this time. This agency might be okay if you have a simple domestic flight, but NEVER use this travel agency for international flights if you want to have the peace of mind of knowing you won't be completely screwed over at the last minute. I'm a student and it's possible I might need to spend thousands of dollars get my dog home now.
Reviewed June 25, 2014
I needed to change my travel plan with OneTravel -purchased the insurance in case this happened. Onetravel told me that my "cheap" flight that I had purchased had NO value - I paid them $140 - seemed like a value to me. It would be WAY cheaper to buy a new ticket (no refund - throw away the $140) and get a new ticket for $245. If someone died I could contact their insurance company and "maybe" get a refund. They were rude and discourteous and basically said if I did not want the new ticket they could not help me further. Just go directly to your airline of choice (not one that uses these scam companies). Book your flights directly through the airline or use a quality travel agent!!
Reviewed June 24, 2014
I recently used One Travel and have used them before without a problem. However this time, the ticket I purchased just a week before went down by four hundred forty dollars. I called United who said that the booking agent would need to refund the difference. When I phoned One Travel however, they offered me a forty-five dollar refund. If I am booking through a travel agent to save money, why would I want to lose that much money. I phoned them again and spoke with a manager who was supposed to get back to me. Needless to say, I am still waiting. If you want the best deal for your money, I recommend using anyone else but One Travel.
Reviewed June 24, 2014
Used Onetravel.com last week to book a flight (which I noticed later was $20 higher than on the airline's website) but had to cancel an hour later due to a death in the family. I got a $21 refund almost immediately?? If they could refund $21, why was the rest of the airfare not included? Sure hope they come through with the balance in the 7-14 days as advertised.
Reviewed June 13, 2014
Living on a fixed income. I tried to find the best deal on one round-trip flight. I had specific days for flying out and flying back. After I booked my flight I got a confirmation. I paid $229.00. The confirmation came back with different fly out and fly out dates. I called and spoke with a woman, or rather she spoke at me, I couldn't get a word in. Anyway, she cancelled the flight and said she would refund it.
So searching the web again, I found another company with the same price. I booked it. After all this, guess what? The different company I booked the second flight thru - is One Travel also. Better yet, one flight that cost me $229.00? Has turned out to be 7 charges on my bank account. There were 4 charges from Spirit Airlines (who I never spoke with) $257.98; $212.97; $207.98; $59.95. Then there are charges to One Travel $21.02; $20.99; $1.02. These are tying up all my funds except $20 in my bank account.
I spoke to the "manager" Lucas and he stated the first booking was cancelled. The second booking shouldn't of happened (I didn't know anything about this until I received an email) And said he would cancel that. The third book, even though it was the highest, I said I would keep. My problem is - I have no money to live on. My bank has tried to reach One Travel and as you know no one has returned my banks request. The bank can't return them as as you read, authorization was (partially) given to use my card. If anyone can help me, please email back to me.
Reviewed June 12, 2014
This is a very unfavorable review of onetravel.com. I booked a trip in March for travel on June 15th. My booking included 4 flights from Boston to LAX, LAX to LAS, LAS to SFO, and SFO back to BOS. Also included were my seats. When I called the airlines to confirm my reservation 4 days before the trip, the seats were not booked. It cost me an extra $120 to book my seats with the airline. It was One Travel's fault because their agent did not complete the booking correctly. They refused to own up to this, and they would not answer or respond to my calls. Do not book with them.
Reviewed June 6, 2014
My father booked a ticket through Onetravel last night to attend a funeral. After receiving confirmation of this booking, he called this morning to see if he could secure a confirmed seat number. He was subsequently told that the price of the ticket had increased as of TODAY, and that he was expected to pay an additional 500 dollars. He ended up having to cancel the ticket. I've never heard of any business making a customer pay the new amount for a ticket AFTER the transaction is already complete and confirmation has been received.
Reviewed June 1, 2014
I thought I was getting a great deal on a family vacation to Hawaii when I booked with onetravel.com back in November 2013. My flight now leaves in 3 days and I just got a call at 7am on a Sunday that there has been a major change to my outbound flight (new departure time, longer layer in a different city, different return flight time). I looked at the notification in my email and tried to call the number provided but they are closed on Sundays. I ended up calling the airlines directly to see what my options were and the airlines told me that they have been contacting onetravel.com since Nov. 24 regarding this change and now there aren't many options for 4 people except the flight with a 6-hour layover which is almost 3 times that of my original flight and at this point we are not booked on any flight.
I finally redialed the number of the person who called me at 7am and got an answer. I spoke with Hawk who was supposed to be a manager/supervisor and he told me the reason we had not been notified is because they have been dealing with more pressing matters (really?? since November??). He then asked if I could fly out the next day. After almost 3 hours on the phone, we were able to find a flight on my original departure date with a better layover but we are now leaving 4 hours earlier than expected. I then asked how they were going to compensate me for this added stress and they gave me 4 $25 off coupons for my next flights booked through them. Needless to say, I will not be booking anything with them ever. I would rather pay the extra money and book with a more reputable booking agent or through the airlines directly.
Reviewed May 24, 2014
I have phoned One Travel 3 times without reaching the Seating Assignment department that I was transferred to. The last time, the phone went dead. I can make the seating assignment if I pay $11.95. This fee was NOT disclosed when making the booking. I would not recommend this company.
Reviewed May 20, 2014
NEVER, never, NEVER book through Onetravel.com (which apparently is owned by the same company as Cheapoair, by the way, both based in India). I hardly ever take the time to write online reviews, but this company is not just lousy customer service, it is basically a scam. People should be warned about it. We made reservations to Madrid three months in advance, then they sent us an email that our reservations were changed and that we had to accept the new ones immediately or forfeit all our fees. The only alternate reservations they sent us were totally senseless: they had us departing on a connecting flight hours before the first flight even arrived. Getting resolution from a customer service person is impossible. Two hours on hold: finally you get the person in India who informs you that someone will call you back in 72 hours. Surprise! you never get a call. Another two hours on "live" chat - you never hear from a person. Email - no reply, ever.
I tried dialing into the extension for making new reservations - I knew they'd have a human answer that one immediately, because they want to sell you a ticket, right? But of course that person immediately rolls you over into the customer service extension where no one answers. And once you have called a few times, you cannot even get into the reservations extension - you get the recording which says "we see you have called a lot today" and rolls directly into - surprise again! the customer service void where no one ever answers. So they have obviously had a lot of people in this situation and they are set up to avoid you. Have now spent over 20 hours trying to resolve this, and it is clear that Onetravel.com is not just horrible customer service, they are set up to get your credit card number and then avoid contact with you. Resolving this is important to us because we are travelling to meet our kids who would otherwise be unaccompanied. After reading other people's experiences, I am going to try to just go through the airline. Will update what happens. But it is clear from our experience so far and from other reviews that this company at least borders on criminal. Stay away from Onetravel.com!!
Reviewed May 18, 2014
I thought I had found a great deal on a flight from Calgary to Toronto on Travel One's website where it advertised the return cost as $583.72 in Canadian Dollars. I have purchased other flights to the U.S. and Australia on other websites and they charged my credit card in Canadian Dollars. When Travel One charged my American Express card, they submitted the charge as $583.72 U.S. $. I inadvertently sent them the wrong e-mail address and did not get a confirmation. They did have my phone number, but did not call. It took me 6 days of e-mails and phone calls to get any response from them at all. I was told that their price guarantee is 24 hours and their terms and conditions which are at least 10 pages long state they charge in U.S. $ I have American Express disputing my extra charges.
Reviewed May 15, 2014
It's not worth the few dollars you thought you could save by going with OneTravel. It is a SCAM. I wish I would have found this site BEFORE I booked two flights. Now the airlines have no record of the flights and I keep getting passed from one department to another and holding on the phone for 45 min each department! This company is supposedly located in my home town, Las Vegas, but the office is a little 1 room suite that is locked all the time and the customer service reps are all in India. It's a Vegas sham and scam and now I'm hoping and praying that American Express will protect my purchase and get all money refunded to me for this fraud. We will see.
Reviewed May 5, 2014
So, I booked a flight with them for what turned out to be the wrong day (and am thankful it was) due to their different day offers that aren't well marked. I see that this was my mistake, but then I looked further into the company and decided I should get out when I can. Luckily, they have a cancellation within 4 hours (for free), so if anyone sees this in 4 hours of booking please make note. Of those 4 hours, I spent almost 2 trying to get to them on the phone. I found that one of their numbers let me sit for an hour before dropping, but another I made it past relatively fast. If you do what you should and cancel, use the 1-800-425-4567 number. You may have a chance. I got the email confirmation and hope the money turns out ok. The guy on the phone was helpful but did not sound like he liked his job ;). Good luck to all on this page.
Reviewed May 1, 2014
Do not, do not, DO NOT book with TravelOne. They have horrible customer service, no cancellation insurance policy, and are full of spam! Just please don't do it! They are a part of CheapOAir too! They are cheap, horrible quality.
Reviewed April 25, 2014
Got a flight reservation with ONETRAVEL and due to some circumstances, I had to change my flight dates. As I was proceeding to reschedule the new dates, the operator on the other side - although very polite - has informed me that I have to pay a sum, a few dollars less the initial flight of 3.0 hrs round trip. I had to fork out 1000.00$. Do not believe that this kind of pricing should be allowed when the site on that flight can be resolved in a matter of minutes. I called Lufthansa and due to the fact that I purchase the ticket with ONETRAVEL, they cannot help. So for that short flight, I'm going to have to shell out the price for a Transatlantic flight.
I believe that this Travel Agency should get a bit less greedier and when a customer is asking for help from a North American agent or have a supervisor ready to assist me, I'm asking for someone that lives in here, not in India (no offence to those operators). Someone that will understand that we are all working damn hard for our wages and should have some be treated in such inhumane manner. ONETRAVEL, as an agency, you people are shameless. There are no stars to award but they should have them just for you.
Reviewed April 23, 2014
I am writing in distraught and disbelief to how brutally onetravel.com has ruined my trip! Not only hidden fees keep posted on my credit card even after my trip was supposed to have ended, the worse is when you've been told 'no reservation' is there for you! Who can tolerate being denied access to a flight, thought to have been booked for you just to discover at the airport there has been no actual reservation! Yes, believe it or not onetravel.com DID just that to me!!!!!!!!!! Don't believe it? Go ahead and book with onetravel.com, you might just happen to be the 'lucky' next!
Reviewed April 19, 2014
You think you may be getting a discount but they price their tickets about $35 higher than going directly to the airline. So if they give you a $20 discount you would still be paying $15 more than the published airline ticket. THIS WEB SITE IS A SCAM!!!! DO NOT USE.
Reviewed April 16, 2014
Worst company ever! Their prices are higher, service sucks, and they charge $50 on top of the airline cancellation fee to cancel your booking.
Reviewed April 15, 2014
Purchased two round trip tickets to Atlanta, GA. Extra charges appeared on CC two days later. No one answers the phone. Charges for seats appeared three days later in addition to extra charges. Called bank to cancel the card and dispute charges. This is a FRAUD! DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!!
Reviewed April 15, 2014
I booked 2 tickets and have an email confirming the charge. When my CC statement was produced, the total amount did not agree. There were additional charges not on my confirmation email. I called twice for a total of 2 hours on the phone. First time I left message with no response in 10 days. Spoke to a representative during the 2nd call, who advised me my flight had changed, we made the updates, but she could not help with billing. I was transferred to the billing dept and had to leave a message. 10 days later, no acknowledgement. I am really getting afraid this is a fraud. Hope my CC company can help me out
Reviewed April 11, 2014
Will not ever use this place again. Can't get in contact with anybody and when you do, you cannot understand them or while on hold for 15 min., your call gets called. They are not specific with the charges. The insurance cancellation is a rip off....
Reviewed April 8, 2014
It is probably too late if you are reading this. OneTravel is a fraud. Booked a trip to Thailand. They sent booking info and indicated tickets had been purchased. A few days before the flight tried to verify flight information. The airlines received the reservation but the tickets were never purchased. By that time it was too late. Not sure what OneTravel gets out of it??? They get your CC info and then send you too another company. WARNING, WARNING, WARNING.
Reviewed April 3, 2014
Rep asked to charge my credit card for booking coach seats. I asked if I would have the same seats without being charged, he answered yes, after I said, booking seats is free. Foreign accent, he would have loved my cc number. Wouldn't tell me what seats he booked, just that an email was sent. I said, "Forget it, I'll do it myself" and hung up. He called me back, told me all the seats, but my traveling companion was seated a row away. He tried to convince me it was only one row away! Took 10-15 min for him to look up my info, so I started asking how much longer, then he got faster but went through whole itinerary unnecessarily. Poor experience, way too much effort, stress and discouragement with the feeling that this company was not legitimate. Never, never again. DON'T USE THIS COMPANY!!!
OneTravel Company Information
- Company Name:
- Onetravel.com
- Year Founded:
- 2008
- Address:
- 1050 E. Flamingo Rd.
- City:
- Las Vegas
- State/Province:
- NV
- Postal Code:
- 89119
- Country:
- United States
- Website:
- www.onetravel.com
