CheapOair
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My name is Erin Fletcher.

I booked a flight through cheapoair from Armidale to Brisbane. Each time I tried to pay on several different cards it kept declining due to "commerce issues". However, my flight was booked but unpaid. Having tried to call their number several times which would not connect I managed to get through on an alternative number to someone who said they would process my payment.

Firstly they told me since I had booked the payment had gone up which I said no it can not have gone up as I have the flight booked the payment just is pending. They agreed to the amount of 310 AUD that I had to pay and then processed my card telling me this would be the amount IN AUD as it was 230 USD. I was then charged 390 AUD for the total of the one hour flight. I have emailed and requested for help and nothing so far. The man on the person assured me that I would be 310 AUD and as a student who is travelling only to go to Uni for the week I had to get out a student loan to pay for my return flights.

Departing Flight

LINK AIRWAYS

Flight 5184

Aircraft: SWM

Nonstop | Coach

Baggage Fees | Visa & Passport Info

Terminal & Gate Information

Thu, Apr 14, 2022

Armidale, Australia

ARM - 06:50 pm

Brisbane, Australia

BNE - 07:55 pm

Thu, Apr 14, 2022

I still have not had a receipt sent of my payment yet.

[protected]@hotmail.com

I booked my flights (for myself, my husband and my daughter, at the time less than two years old) in Dec 2019 for March 2020 to go to Florida (cost: $1272.99) Ref# [protected]. Because of pandemic we were not able to go. I asked to have credit for domestic flights. The last email I got from Cheapoair indicated we can fly domestically by March 2022. I called to book my flights in Jan 2022 for Feb and the Cheapoair representative told me for each ticket I had to pay $100 extra because I changed the flight and she sent me a detail of my flights and told me I will receive my confirmation in a couple of hours and then she transferred me to the other line so I get a ticket for my daughter because she was more than two years old at the time. I had to pay $640.36 for my 3.5 years old daughter ticket to be in the same flight to fly from Toronto to Calgary! I got the confirmation for my daughter’s ticket right away but I never got my husband and my ticket’s confirmation! Basically Cheapoair representative misled me to buy a ticket for my daughter by lying that my husband and I already have the ticket to go to Calgary to make more money for Cheapoair. The only thing I could do was calling Air Canada to get tickets for myself and my husband to make sure we will be in the same flight with my daughter. The Representative at Air Canada told me the tickets are only valid for two years after your purchase (meaning till Dec 2021 not March 2022 and Cheapoair shouldn’t have lied!) I had to buy two other tickets for myself and my husband to be able to be In the same flight with my daughter and it costed us $1147.56! Cheapoair is responsible for misleading me saying my ticket is valid till the end of March and also misleading me getting an expensive ticket for my 3.5 years old daughter. How could my 3.5 years old fly by herself without me and my husband going with her! I called Cheapoair so many times and was on hold for so long, I got a $145 phone bill and nothing was resolved! I could have paid only $800 to have tickets for my whole family to go to Calgary but I ended up paying $1787.92. Cheapoair should refund me $1272.99.

I booked my tickets in December 2019 for September 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic i tried to cancel my tickets and get my refund which I was denied and told to make credit note for December 2021. In 2021 due to the new variants i tried again to get my refund I was denied again. I had made calls and was even informed I should contact the airline directly which the airline denied and told me the travel agent who made the booking should be the one intiating the cancellation which shows me Cheapoair had no intention of making my refund happen. I even tried in December cause I still could not travel nothing. They still dont want to give me my refund. The delays was caused by Cheapoair time and time again as if waiting for the time period to elapse so they didnt have to refund me.

My name is Bina Biswas. I have a concern about my airline's credit. My booking #[protected]. I booked my ticket for myself and daughter in 2019 and travelling date was March 2020, due to corona I have changed my travelling date and got credit CAD 3826.70. My credit expiry date was in December 2021, before expired that I contact to cheapo air to extend my credit and paid CAD 375.00 but that wasn't updated by the customer service. Then I call them again to know my status of credit and how can I book my tickets and they told me my credit is expire already. I contact to airlines and emailed all documents and got email from cheapo air that I have still my credit until May 31,2022. In last week I called them to book my tickets to customer service and they told me that my credit is expire and told me to contact to Turkish air lines , I called the airlines but they said you should contact to cheap o air. Now I don't know what should I do who can contact to. If I need to provide all emails that I got from them, I will do when needed. Finally I want to use my credit or get my money back. Please help me out with this situation. My email [protected]@yahoo.com. Thank you.

I purchased two tickets through Cheap O Air, for $647.98, booking # [protected]. I booked travel to Cabo San Lucas, on 3/28/2022, through American Airlines. When I got to the airport, the airlines said that Cheap O Air did not confirm the tickets, and therefore I had no tickets, even though I had a confirmation number. I called Cheap O Air and they said that I did have a confirmation number and I did have tickets. Needless to say, I was not able to travel. I then called Cheap O Air back, and was put on hold for over an hour. I called again, and they could not give me a reason that the tickets were not confirmed with American Airlines. I called multiple times the same day, and nobody could explain what happened. They did say that they got an extension on the credits through the end of December. Later in the same day, I tried calling again to book travel and the customer service rep through Cheap O Air hung up on me, after being on the phone with him for an hour. I have since filled a formal complaint with The Department of Transportation. I am now calling again to speak to a supervisor and on hold again. I would not recommend using this service, it is by far the worst company I have ever dealt with. I am hoping my complaint from The Department of Transportation goes through and I get a refund.

Bought round trip ticket from US to Kenya on 10/21/21 with Emirates airlines through CheapOair for $ 1970.77, on the way back in January 2022 emirates canceled my trip back 4-times, I was stranded in Kenya for 2-weeks, so I had to buy new return ticked with travel agency in Kenya for $1870.00. When I arrived in US, I managed to do the almost impossible - get CheapOair on the phone, they assured me that I'll get refund, on 3/2/22 I got email from CheapOair saying I'll be refunded $ 843.17, on 3/16/22 CheapOair called me and said that I'll be refunded only $ 499.00 plus $100.00 coupon I reluctantly agreed, they said that I'll get en email confirming that. On 3/16/22 got an email confirming only getting $100.00 coupon - At this point I have lost faith in CheapOair and will never use them again, will tell my family members, friends, etc about my experience

I purchased airline tickets in March of 2021, could not use them because of covid. I ended up rebooking another trip, which flights got changed and cancelled for months and months. I ended up just cancelling that flight because the constant changes that the airline was doing was not fitting my schedule. I have commuicated with them time and time again, over 30 times to get no where. I have emailed, called, chated, which has taken hours. And all they tell me is the credits will expire. I spent $700. and I have nothing to show for that. I either wanted a refund or my airline credits extended since they kept moving the flights around. I am very, very disapointed, do not use this company, they are a scam.

I booked return flights with BA from NYC to London Heathrow in early 2020 via Cheapo Air. The flights were cancelled due to Covid and I was issued a voucher. I have been trying to use the voucher for over 2 YEARS now! I call Cheapo constantly - today I hung on for over 3 hours and then the phone gets cut off. I have sent multpul emails which are NEVER EVER answered. Cheapo is clearly a scam operation and should be avoided at all costs. They have stolen almost $700 from me and I have no recourse at all. This is next level corporate theft - Cheapo have taken advantage of a global pandemic to steal money- Utter disgrace

3/2/2022 booked a flight for four for Paris never received confirmation. Called cheapoair was told my credit card was denied. A few days later see charges on my credit card for over $3,560.88 Have been calling/texting/emailing cheapo air for over 8 hours and they will not refund me my money. I have been on online "chat" with Aidan for hours with no resolution.

if i could i would leave ZERO stars. they said that i partially used my credit when i have NOT they dont even have proof that i used it and said that they have to check with airline so how are they saying that i partialy used it when they dont have proof that are trying to keep my $568 that i have in credit. THIS IS RIDICULOUS

I just purchase my plane tickets on Sunday Feb 27th 2022. The total of my tickets was 4048. I paid through paypal, I used 48 in my PayPal balance and 4,000 in my PayPal credit. They processed the charge on my paypal balance of 1,945 AND my paypal credit 3,455. Today is Thursday march 3rd, I have called countless times everyday to customer service and billing reps and no one can tell me why. I've been hung up on, I've been on hold for up to 4 hours with no one to check up on me. I have sent an email with screen shots of my statement. Yet i have no answer. This is my first time booking through cheapoair and I will never again. Their customer service is not up to par like how all these other reviews say they are. No one has tried to help me at all. People work hard for their money to be able to take vacation with their families and for a company like this to screw you over. Never again.

I purchased a ticket Thur you booking # [protected] on October 29th 2021 February 13th I got a email from you saying American Airlines changed my departure date that date no longer works for me and I need to change my original date from April to October and return date I’m may to November l called American Airlines and they said they could change the dates but being I booked Thur you I needed to reach out to you I’ve called you and American Airlines multiple times now and I keep getting the run around American Airlines tells me to call you and you tell me I have to call them what kind of deal is this I really need to change the dates because of scheduling differences in Korea what can I do to have this done. Because American Airlines changed it on me why can’t I change it for myself. Please help me American Airlines gave me the flights numbers flight # 1220 from PBI and flight # 281 to Inchon Seoul Korea and from Inchon to Dallas flight # 280 and flight # 2271 to PBI.

Feb. 5, 2022 I reserved my flight and insurance. I never received a confirmation and called to request one on Feb. 7. When I received it on Feb. 8 through my email address I saw that the date was wrong. Instead of flying out on March 8, my ticket was for Feb. 8. I called again and was told there was nothing I could do. The flight was gone and I had paid over $300. for a flight I did not reserve. Your customer service bounced me back and forth for the entire day and assigned me an agent to look into it. "Heidi" called to say there was nothing to prove it was an agent error and no recompense was available to me. My family will be traveling on the March 8 flight without me along with them. I am 83 years old and want to fly at the same time as my family leaving Colorado for Boston.

I bought 5 tickets from cheapOair January 2020 and the date of travel is supposed to be April 23,2020 to the Philippines. But due to covid lockdown, the flight was cancelled by the airlines. We decided not to get a refund and instead paid $50 CAD for each ticket to convert them to future airline credits. I received an email from them after that says "If you are ready to fly again, just give us a call". Due to travel ban and strict covid travel restrictions, we weren't able to travel the past two years. It's only this year when Philippines started to ease up their travel restrictions and now we are ready to travel again. I called them to rebook our tickets but they said that they will be contacting the airline to check the tickets. We received an email after from cheapoair that says the airline denied to extend our ticket validity and that our airline future credits had already expired since january 2021. They NEVER informed us about the validity or the expiry of our tickets. It was not stated in the email they sent us nor it was mentioned in the call when we first contacted them about the flight cancellation. Another agent from cheapoair also told us that they could not refund our tickets and that we should contact the airline directly ourselves. We contacted the airline but we were told that they could not find our e-tickets and that we need to communicate with the travel agency instead. It's been really frustrating going back and forth with the airline and travel agency. It should be the cheapoair helping us but they just don't seem to care at all about their customers. We've sent few more emails but they weren't very responsive. Me and my family are extremely disappointed by their service. We've saved up for a long time just to afford those tickets and now we are having a hard time trying to get our money back. They should have been more considerate to their customers especially right now that a lot of people are already having a hard time due to the pandemic. I hope someone would be able to help us on this matter. Thanks!

Booked flights for Tuesday February 22nd - March 3rd. After review I found my last name had an extra A in it. I further reviewed account and know I had it spelt correctly. Contacted customer support to find out had to cancel and rebook my flight again and pay additional fees. Which I know I didn't miss spell name. Well after forever and spending additional $210.00 for ticket to be fixed they sent email to confirm change all spelling correctly. I go check my trip on app the last name was incorrect again! Chat support fixed it again! But with this being said how can they tell me they didn't complete the error the first time if when correcting they spelt it wrong? I don't understand how I needed to spend all this extra money when it clearly could have been an error

On their end?

On feb 2nd 2022, I was supposed to board a flight from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida. The day before I had cold symptoms, I went to take the required covid test to enter the US and I tested positive. I could not board the plane, and had to ride out covid at my destination. My flight was with Latam Airlines, I contacted them and they told me there was no fee to re-book due to a covid positive test, but that the website I bought with had to make the arrangements. I contacted CheapoAir, numerous times, repeatedly, never ending... it took 12 days to get a response, and from then I was bounced around endlessly, lot of nothing emails, or automatic responses, sorry for the wait I kept getting told. Yet the airline was telling me they would book me without problems if the 3rd party website I purchased with would just make the arrangements.

I am still stuck in Lima, Peru. I know nothing from CheapoAir, seems they are waiting me out hoping I will just buy another flight.

Their behavior is disgusting.

BOOK ME ON A FLIGHT SO I CAN GO HOME! What they are doing is illegal.

Booking number: [protected]

Booked a flight for 3 in May 2020 to Krakow Poland. Due to covid had to cancel. I was told on the phone that I had until 2022 to rebook. In November, 2021, after looking into the tickets, discovered that they were expiring at the end of 2021, not end of 2022! I requested a refund. I was told by CheapOAir that they would submit to the airline. Since then I did receive a few emails giving me updates that they were still working on and had not heard from the airline. On February 15th, I received an email that the airline denied my refund. I spoke to the airline directly and they told me that COA did not submit the request properly and therefore the time for a refund had expired. I talked to a representative and it was very difficult to communicate with her. It sounded like she was at home with lots of background noise and eventually just stopped talking to me. I would very much appreciate you making this right. You have the ability to make any changes necessary. I have always thought CheapOAir was great to work with and have booked many flights thru you. But, now a sour taste is in my mouth and am deeply disappointed. Thanks! Maria

I booked my ticket late November 2019 to travel to Fiji in April 2020 and returning in May 2020. However, by this time the entire world had virtually gone into a lockdown. CheapOair initially informed me that my flight could not be refunded and the funds can be held as travel credit for future travel. Despite my repeated requests I was referred to the airline and just bounced back and forth with them for almost a year without no solid answer. Then in June 2021 they informed me that they have requested for refund from the airline. Apparently they had sent an email telling me that travel credit could be good until Dec 21. However, I was not sent an email/text reminder. Further escalating the problem, I could not travel owing to covid and the travel ban in Fiji until Dec 21. When I followed up in Feb 22- I was informed the airline had stopped issuing refunds and basically cheapoair cannot do anything.

The worst bit is I had paid using Affirm and now affirm is redirecting me to the airline and cheapoair and would not do anything about the issue.

None of the parties here have been helpful starting with CheapOair; Fiji Airways and Affirm. They all make you bounce back and forth.

my wife and I booked 2 flights to Australia in march of 2020 booking numbers 67700247and [protected] because of covid their are no flights scheduled or flights at this time due to the restrictions and the dates just keep getting pushed back and back without any results and now they are offering no refund or credit reasonable that can be used within a timeframe that works for my family less then 6months. I have spent hours and hours on the phone with their people getting the run around. Ticket costs are 1060 and 1130. respectively. any movement on this matter would be helpful. thanks again

I booked flights for my parents from India To USA , specifically from Vadodara to Jacksonville (arrival) AND Orlando to Vadodara (departure).

I got a call couple days ago that the departure flight has been changed, as swiss airline canceled the booking. They changed the flight from Swiss to Lufthansa.

For the Swiss airlines , I paid approx. $219 for seat selection. After changing the flights they copy pasted the old seats to new one, which doesn't make sense as each airlines has unique seats.

I called cheapoair, waited for an hour and no one picked my call. And guess what, it got disconnected (I have screenshots & call record to prove)

I messaged on the online chat, that cheapoair boasts about. there as a person named "Linus" with whom I chatted. When I shared the concerns, She was like, I cannot reassign seats. This is what I got as an answer after more than 90mins of hassle. Later, I asked to refund my $$, but again , she is like I cannot, the other department will take care.

I asked her to send an email for the reference # she gave me. She said No! I asked why not? She said cause my manager/supervisor advised the same. Only an unethical company can not send things in written or in email.

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I asked the person to refund my $