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Are the prices any better than the prices at the airline site? Will discount sellers you have no one to hold your hand if something goes wrong. What kind of discounts are you seeing?

Sometimes these type of operators buy frequent flier awards miles from individuals and then sell these as discount tickets. The problem. Totally against the rules. If caught, and it happens, your ticket is confiscated. You don’t fly and you don’t get a refund. Then you need to purchase a last minute full price ticket or lose all the other prepaid costs for your trip.

Just google the name looking for complaints and you’ll see those with actual experience. No complaints means the ticketing and flights went smoothly, no missed connections and no changes in flights. It’s when you have a problem that it’s the true test. I’ve read too many cases on the Elliott advocacy website https://www.elliott.org/ to risk a third-party, online discounter.

Don’t know them, wouldn’t use them. I only book with airlines directly because of one horrid experience with an on-line travel agency (CheapoAir).

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What Carol said.

If I discount seller is selling your tickets cheaper than you can find them anyplace else a couple of things are happening. One they are selling frequent flyer miles and get the airline catches on, (and they do) you may discover that when you get to your destination you no longer have a flight home. Or you could show up for the first flight To discover you don’t actually have a flight.

Two They are doing creative ticketing. Things like you fly to New York on Spirit , then you transfer to Norwegian to Oslo, and then you transfer to EasyJet to your final destination. You notice that none of these airlines have anything in common? That means that you have to re-check your luggage if you check at each spot and you have to hope that nothing is late because when spirit is late the entire house of cards falls apart.

There really is no cheap airfare fairy . Anyone who is giving a dramatically better rate is doing something That will easily cause you more problems than you ever imagined

Did this happen to you Carol?

Airlines can instantly tell who your ticket who you bought it from. They look at people who buy from outfits like you are looking at as being the kissing cousins of pick-pockets. If something goes amiss on any of your flights, you will find yourself at the 'tender' mercies of the airline customer service desk and they will treat you accordingly. In the immortal words of Dirty Harry Callahan, "How lucky do you feel, punk?"

After 16 years of touring Europe, I have only purchased airline tickets from the airlines themselves after doing some research on pricing on other web sites. I have had big problems with my airline reservations only three times and after spending time on the phone with the airlines they corrected my problems. I am glad that I was dealing with the airlines themselves rather than some consolidator.

No this has not happened to me. And that’s because I have not ever bothered to book with one of these agencies. But I follow a lot of travel message board and websites and it’s a constant problem

I’m also the person in my group of friends who travels all the time, and has to unwind the Mess my friends get into because of their great arrangements they found. I did have a friend not too long ago get a great deal on a first class flight to Los Angeles. And call me a couple of days later because she was stuck, the airline had canceled herHer ticket. The ticket has been purchased with frequent flyer miles that had been sold to the people she bought the ticket from. Against the rules and if you get on one of those and they figure It out you’re stuck. Luckily she was only in Los Angeles. And we were able to find her a cheap airfare on spirit to get home. It certainly was not the luxurious first class American Airlines flight she paid for

Buy directly from the airline.