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Michigan
1 review
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Omg! NEVER have I had such a horrible experience. We had a change in our plan for a flight I booked for $75. They said I had to pay $300 for change fee for a $75 dollar ticket, when I said that makes no sense, they hung up and never picked up my phone again. Save yourself the hassle and may a little extra to book on another site.

Date of experience: June 21, 2022
Turkey
1 review
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Greedy scammers
September 9, 2023

Do not touch this airline they refuse to deal with me by phone they will not refund my inbound flight I had to switch I will go to court in uk when I get back.would anyone pay for a flight if they were not using it mark Hinton uk

Date of experience: September 9, 2023
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Booked 7 roundtrip tickets from Manila to Prague to Dubrovnik back to Manila through this site. Due to unforseen circumstances, 2 of my companions missed their flight to Prague and just bought new tickets through a different airlines on another day. They also canceled the return flight and we had to pay US$2000 for two economy seats on the same return flight. After numerous calls to their helpdesk, there is no resolution. They have the money. They want to keep it by ignoring us. We just gave up and charged that to experience. First time and last time we are using this site. We travel as a big family several times a year on holidays. My suggestion is to just book directly with the airlines. They have clear guidelines and policies on missed flights and can give faster and more direct resolution. AVOID THIS SITE AT ALL COSTS.

Date of experience: July 4, 2017
Canada
1 review
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Covid refund
March 22, 2022

Terrible company. They have no contact number to call. I had to cancel a flight in April 2021 because of covid 19. I was told I would get a full refund if I booked a flight within one year. I have pictures of all our chats and emails for proof. They want me to pay $365 on top of my $256 dollar credit. I can book the same flight for $249.48 on there website. Does this sound like a scam? I have been strung along for over one year! Not to sure how Westjet continues to do business with budjetair. They make Westjet look bad!

Date of experience: March 22, 2022
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Disappointed
October 16, 2020

Most useless booking office. The one star is because I have to rate them. They deserve nothing. Taking advantage of covid19 to robb the customers. I have been trying to call them, written them but no word from their side. When I wrote KLM, they sent me back to these thieves. Why engage these louges into booking partnership if klm can not assist. I will never use a booking agent again. Just to avoid being left in the middle of the 2 supper power travelling facilitators. (Agent and flight company)

Date of experience: October 16, 2020
Thailand
1 review
6 helpful votes
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DISGUSTED SCAM
June 17, 2019

If there was an option to give 0 stars I would.
SCAM DONT EVER BOOK!
I made the simple mistake of mixing up my flight days. After two days of panicking and countless unanswered calls I finally got through to an agent. The hold time was over 45 minutes and the call immediately dropped. I called back and the lady told me she would call back and never did. I requested a change online and wrote 3 emails. Budget air had me frantic as I am stuck across the world and not able to reach them. They wont refund me and I had to drop another $1000 on flights from a different company due to the lack of care and customer service. I'm disgusted as I've heard no reply and will be filing a claim. For your sanity STAY AWAY BUYER BEWARE. Scam and untrustworthy

Date of experience: June 17, 2019
1 review
15 helpful votes
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After purchasing my family tickets through Budgetair we started our trip on July 12th, 2018. Due to an emergency, we needed to change the date of the last leg of our trip. We tried unsuccessfully to contact this company by phone, the waiting time was more than 40 minutes and all these were international phone calls. Finally we decided to contact them by email, our message was answered one week after it was sent and only three days before our return flight. They promised to contact the airline and find out the penalty, if any, for the change we requested. Nothing else was ever received from them, so we were forced to buy new tickets for that part of our itinerary.
Their customer service is nonexistent and this company shouldn't be allowed to even exist and continue cheating travelers like us.

Date of experience: August 20, 2018
Louisiana
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I they cancelled my returned flight! I went back and bought another one, This time they cancelled it and never even send an email about the cancellation! They still have the same flights on their website!

Date of experience: May 20, 2023
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Only giving one star becuase it wouldnt allow me to do zero.

An absolute sham of a company - a disgrace who will essentially steal your money, not provide a service and never ever respond to any communications what so ever. If you want to buy fake tickets, not get where you want to go and have more money than was agreed taken from your account, then this is the "company" for you

Date of experience: March 28, 2020
Florida
1 review
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FRAUD
August 10, 2018

I booked 3 tickets from Baltimore to Charolette about 3 weeks ago. I haven't received any confirmation yet. I called Southwest Airlines but apparently they don't have any tickets under my name. I expect a full refund immediately. Please note that if I do not receive a refund immediately, I am not going to stop here. I am a journalist and I have a huge social media presence. If things don't work out, there will be consequences. I will post on every social media platform possible and make sure not a single person buys tickets from your platform again. This is by the way coming from 3 weeks of frustration and constantly trying to contact you so I hope you understand.

Date of experience: August 10, 2018
New Zealand
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Pure scam
January 18, 2021

I booked with skyscanner but my payment was made to budgetair and it has been over 6 months that I have been waiting for a refund and they just keep replying by email with the same old covid excuse and they do not even have a phone number to call.

Date of experience: January 18, 2021
Malaysia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bull$#*! company
April 29, 2018

I booked a flight to London for RM2600, and I wanted to change the dates for my return. They sent me an email with a RM2200 quotation. (My return date is three months ahead). Called to ask for further details or any better option, and the customer service was terrible as hell. This indian dude was shouting over the phone, and when I asked for his name, he told me it's Peter John, which is also bull$#*!. Just avoid budgetair, they suck your money out of everything. This is budgetair Malaysia

Date of experience: April 29, 2018
Nicaragua
1 review
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They never answer phones. Their emergency number is fake, no one ever answers!
They never answer email, costumer service is non existent.

I honestly believe that everyone who works for this company should be in prison on fraud charges.

Never ever use this garbage!

Date of experience: March 16, 2019
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do not trust BudgetAir
June 5, 2022

Do not trust BUDGETAIR.COM they are horrible, not responsible at all. It's the worst experience I have ever had, I've been traveling for 10 years now and never had an issue with other Travel agencies. They don't keep their promise and don't care at all they just collect your money and abandon you

Date of experience: June 5, 2022
Viet Nam
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Where is my refund?
November 30, 2023

I've booked my flight ticket through Skyscaner linked to BudgetAir. I just got an email saying that my flight was canceled. According to them, "The fare you chose is no longer available from the airline."
I have NOT received my refund from BudgetAir, It has been a 5 days since they cancelled my booking.
This is a horrible experience with BudgetAir. Anyone please tell me how can I get my refund and when?
I've paid 1.600usd.

Date of experience: November 30, 2023
Hong Kong
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Avoid avoid avoid
January 3, 2024

They took my money, went to the airport and found out they had cancelled the booking (without telling me). Had to find a last minute expensive flight and waiting for a reufund now (funny they cant take immediately but takes 2 weeks to refund.) Got an email a day after the flight saying the booking was cancelled. Walk away from these people.

Date of experience: January 3, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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For anyone struggling to get through to Budget Air try *******118. Can't say if they'll actually help you, but I at least talked to a real person. I was trying to change my flights, like I was supposed to be allowed to do, but they kept telling me (over two days and four phone calls) that they "couldn't see" British Air's flight prices and were trying to charge me double the actual price to change dates. They kept telling me to call back in a few hours but they would still have the wrong flight prices. Honestly the whole thing felt like a scam to get me to give up

Date of experience: December 14, 2021
France
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Budgetair.com is A BIG SCAM
They took my money but the "booking failed" i was supposed to be fully refunded "within 5 days" and it has been 45 days now. They keep answering me that the refund has been processed. But the money is not reflecting on my account. My bank can't see any pending transfer.
THEY STOLE 500 $ TO ME and that's it.
If someone has been through the same experience please contact me.

Date of experience: May 23, 2017
Netherlands
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Horrible
August 25, 2020

I had a few flights and they cancelled them. I am writing almost two emails every other day. The answer isn't personal. I will go to the lawyer as they need to pay me back my money as they cancelled the flights... it's better to spend a bit more money in better companies than in this one. I understand it's hard with the covid situation but a personal email or phone number to call personally is need it. I will fight until they give me my money back!

Date of experience: August 25, 2020
GB
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Don't book ticket flight with this fraud company, they don't even care I don't give them even 1 star, if you want to get stressed then book a ticket with budgetair
Please this message to all your contact and friends Facebook...,,
Thank you

Date of experience: May 22, 2017

Overview

BudgetAir.com has a rating of 1.3 stars from 518 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with BudgetAir.com most frequently mention customer service, credit card and phone number. BudgetAir.com ranks 216th among Travel Search Engine sites.

service
216
value
207
shipping
142
returns
175
quality
190