The company has established a strong reputation for its user-friendly platform and competitive pricing, with many customers praising the efficiency of the booking process and the helpfulness of customer service representatives. However, some concerns have been raised regarding communication issues, particularly related to flight changes and refunds, leading to frustration among users. While the majority of feedback highlights a positive experience, instances of delayed support and difficulties in correcting booking errors suggest areas for improvement. Overall, the company is viewed as a reliable option for budget-conscious travelers, yet it must enhance its customer service responsiveness.
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Worst place to book any flight can't talk to anyone on they phone as they all have poor English and they talk way to fast for u to understand what they are saying or doing I had a credit with them around 500$ and to deal with them was a night mare they charged me so much money and the hassle to argue with them over the phone to understand why I was only getting 200$ of my 500$ credit after all the charges, and then to phone them and sit on the phone for 2 hours to see if me and my girlfriend where on the same flight because they changed are flight and cheapo air did not send my girlfriend the same email letting us know about are flight times and destination's have changed, and if I didn't except within 48 hours they would have just cancelled are whole flight and trip all together. I asked the lady on the phone what would have happened if I didn't phone In and check what was going on while my girlfriend did not receive the email? They could not give me a straight answer. So no don't book with them waste of time and your money
I was ready to purchase a ticket, but they sent me an email that they couldn't verify my details and they will need me to call them to verify everything so that the charge can go through. Before I was even able to call them and verify everything, my bank sends me an email that they already charged me. HOW DO YOU CHARGE SOMEONE BEFORE YOU VERIFIED SOMETHING WHICH CONCERNED YOU BEFORE? What if it was someone trying to use my credit card, didn't provide all the information correctly, Cheapoair notices something is wrong, but then decides to charge anyways?!?!?!?! I went on the website and had an online chat with a guy, who although at first tried not to refund me, was helpful at the end and started the refund process. His explanation on my concern was: "Earlier, the billing details were not able to get verified but later our concern team tried again to check your booking. And the details were all verified later s our concern team charges your card and issued the ticket. Your booking is now confirmed and good to travel" My question is - if this is true, how were they unable to verify somethng at first, but then they tried again and this time it worked? Very, very, very bad experience. Would not recommend to my worst enemy.
People, if you care about your money and what happens with your billing on your credit card, NEVER use cheapoair. NEVER!
I booked a flight through Cheapoair. I had to postpone it for several reasons. I called their customer service line which routed me to a call center located in India. Spent a total of 3+ hours on the line with several agents who where all EXTREMELY disrespectful. They did not explain the flight change policies and pricing breakdowns well and kept on changing what they would say. The company wanted to charge me as much money as I had initially paid for. The agents were not attending to my concerns and refused to answer some of my questions nor help find me a satisfying resolution or cancellation alternative.
I felt like the company had me tied up since I had already paid and literally did not consider my booking history as a regular returning customer. I was being kept on hold for over 20-30 minutes at a time without any reasonable reason.
I decided to cancel my flight and got charged a $200 cancellation fee as well as refund of only 70% of the initial price.
This has been by far the worst customer experience I have ever had and I will never consider booking anything from this company. Literally horrible service.
I would strongly recommend you all to avoid this company in case you book something with them and require assistance, you will have a lot of trouble dealing with their service team.
Booked 4 months in advance.
They canceled my booking 1 month before my trip. Customer Service very unhelpful.
Now I have to Wait SIXTY 60 Days for my refund! SCAMMERS!
They use my money for
This company will double charge your credit card and will never refund your card so avoid using them. That's what this company did to me. I booked a flight in February 2019 they double charged my CC and ever since I have been trying to get my money back and it is May and I still can't get my refund they have all different types of explanations as to why the refund is still not done. They are a sets of SCAMMERS. Please do not allow them scam you like they scam me. CHEAPOAIR I NEED MY MONEY BACK YOU SETS OF THIEVES!
This is why the flight booking is so lucrative:
Booked 3 months in advance.
If you cancel you have to pay $50 on top of what you already pay.
If you want to change your booking, it's $200 on top of what you already pay (Ticket $206 Booking fee $40)
You see on the news people getting thrown out of plane because it was overbooked, they even offer $400 to give up your seat!... But you get charged if you cancel 3 months in advance
The worst customer service. Worst site to book any kind of tickets. They inform me 4 days before my flight that the flight is cancelled and no compensation or new flight tickets in return. No help at all. Had to be on call for 12 hours to talk to any person. Was being transferred from person to person with no help at all. -100 rating for customer service. The passengers were my grandmother and parents, senior citizens and we had to book yet another ticket and spend 1000$ more so that this rip off company could earn more, plus they have to travel for 2 days now because of this stupid cheapoair. Cheapoair should be shut down totally. I regret making any booking through such a cheap third class company. They literally made fool out of me and told me to pay more or forget any booking. Whoever is at the highest post I want to talk to that person and let him know what kind of customer rip off and trash company he is running, trying such cheap ways to make money.
They may offer somewhat cheaper tickets from time to time, but if you ever need to make a date change to your ticket you can expect to pretty much lose all of the money you paid. They charge a hefty change fee ON TOP of the airline penalty, give you a credit that you can only rebook through them, then when you try to rebook they add a WHOLE BUNCH of arbitrary restrictions such as that you cannot change the departing or arriving airport, etc. Furthermore, they only have expensive flights available that you can use your credits for. In the end it turns out to cost about the same as if you were to just purchase an entire flight elsewhere.
---- Update 5/14/2019 ----
After receiving this review the company called and offered a $125 refund, asking me to remove or edit my review. The refund that actually showed up on my credit card was $109 CAD ($81 USD). This is roughly equal to the additional fee they charged + the fare difference between what I found and what they offered during the rebooking. So if we had just bought the ticket elsewhere in the first place we would have spent a similar amount of money except without having to go through this whole ordeal. You can decide for yourself whether the initial ticket price CheapOair offers for the flight you're looking for is low enough to be worth an ordeal like this. Since the company at least cares about its reputation enough to do something about it after I escalated the issue to this website, I increased my rating of them from 1 to 2 stars.
I tried to book flights thru Cheap O Air and their computer system defaulted to the wrong dates before I pressed "Buy". When I called the customer service department literally 5 MINUTES LATER to re-book the correct dates I was told that you could only make those modifications by charging me $80 PER TICKET ($320 more) to do this!
This is unacceptable and when I told the woman I was speaking with to cancel the entire order she wanted to charge me $200 in cancellation fees! She then hung up on me.
RIDICULOUS!
I am now disputing the charges with my credit card company and I am posting reviews about this EVERYWHERE I CAN!
Thanks for nothing Cheap O Air, you gave me nothing but HEADACHES!
You are so much better off booking directly with the airline, learn from my mistake!
Company is a Fraud. Company quotes a low rate on Kayak.com and other travel sites, and then when you enter your travel information, the next page will say the fare has changed and their website will Automatically book your travel at a much higher fare.
The fares this Company quotes on travel websites to get your travel information are Not Real...
Don't purchase ticket from this Airline. I will upload the picture of my booking and show how you can save money by booking through the airline. I will also upload a picture of my waiting that I wait for their customer service. It was horrible!
I want to mention one more thing that if you purchase the thicket by airline, you have 24 hours free cancellation policy but if you book through this website, they charge you 50 boxes even if you want to cancel it during 24 hour time frame. They are all about your money, once they get it, then they don't care about u.
I have the experience of booking the ticket from money website, this one is the horrible one!
I realized my mistake after I purchased the ticket. If you want to prevent making the same mistake as I did, learn from my experience.
Note: on the picture that I am going to upload, I will show you the price that you can book through the airline which is cheaper and my booking price that has been broken down is crazy.
They will rip you off. The reps will tell you one thing and book another. When asked to produce the recorded call they act as if they can't. NEVER USE THIS SITE TO BOOK A FLIGHT.
I bought insurance with tickets had to cancel still got a big cancellation fee even with insurance. You will be ripped off if you go through this site also have additional fees after paying for tickets
CheapOair are rip-offs
HORRIBLE!
Booked a flight in February of which the returning flight had already been cancelled, of which we were not aware, however, they were. Additionally our air carrier had discontinued flights altogether to our home destination (we live overseas). Long story short, they took our money knowing we would have no way to return home except to purchase another flight from another airline, without refunding us one cent. They kept me on the phone line for over two hours giving the excuse that the airlines was not answering their phone call. Utterly ridiculous... unprofessional... scam, scam, scam.
I was on hold to speak to the billing department for 30 minutes and the wait time is not discussed. After that I hang up. They call back but have to transfer me back to that department and still have to be on hold again.
The chat is an okay service but they take forever to respond. They charged me 340$ for changing a flight that I made withing the 24 hours time frame. I requested a refund and the amount they refunded me is not the same thing that is sent to my emails. Im getting different emails from the billing departmemt not stating what was discussed in the chat. I got six different emails with different amounts that was not discussed for mh total refund. I was on the chat for 45 minutes discussing changes to my flight. This whole thing is just a big mess. Make sure you know exactly what your booking to avoid any confusion or delays. 14 days refund time frame is to long for your money back. Especially if all cancellations was done in a days time frame.
I received an email from the customer service side stating first attempt call back. But number one im at work and I already emailed you can email me back. Number 2 I already answer when I received a call back and got transferred again to the billing department that I was on hold for and number 3 I already emailed the billing department.
I wont recommend to friend and family, cheep company standards. If I could give negative star definitely I will go with it
Hello. We are very sorry to hear of your recent customer experience. Your concern is very important to us. Please provide the 8 digit booking number and email address along with what you need assistance with. Thank You.
Terrible experience from just looking at tickets online, (I don't know how a sales representative called me to rush my purchase because I was taking too long) To missing a whole week of paid vacation because my flight time was changed. And when i called them they said i had to accept or just lose the money. To also having costumer service cutting me off and hanging up on me, this is the most unprofessional costumer service experience I've ever had.
I booked the trip with baggage, i checked (i call them) to make sure if on my ticket include baggage and it was with baggages included.
But when I arrived at airport my ticket was without baggage, and i had to pay extra for the baggages. They changed all the links after i called them, but i already had got pictures. They are playing with us, our time and our money... who controls them, who protects the customers, where is the state here? These scammers can do whatever they want and get away with it?!
Flo, our apologies for the inconvenience. We have not changed any links on our website regarding baggage, each airline has their own policies in which can change at any time so you should always verify. But we would be glad to see the screen shots of the baggage policy that you have. Please attach them here for our review. You can also be charged if your bags are over weight.
Such a bad service. Never ever book from you again. I faced problem and when I called they told me we will call you in 48 hours and I don't why they couldn't solve it right away. Anyways I waited but Noone called and when I called back the lady doesn't want to listen to me and she was so rude. I was talking very calm and I was asking her gently. Later she just hang up. If you want to book long trip go to the airline directly cause you will get robbed.
Cheapo air posted completely false information on BBB in regards to my complain.
1. They've stated that I was presented with information on what BASIC fair means, that is absolutely not true. There is no where information on their site explaining what different faires include.
2. They say I was presented with information to the Airline prior booking. Yet, that is not true as well. I was provided with a link after making my reservation but NEVER prior that.
3. They say problem is solved, not correct. Problem is not solved.
At least stand up and admit your fault. Stop blaming your customers for your incorrect and deceiving ways of doing business. You do not deserve a penny for the way you lie to customers.
Bought 3 overseas tickets with cheapoair. Travelling with a child, was not looking for cheapest ticket but for one with shortest transfer time. In no way I was presented with information about different fares nor was I told that I can upgrade for 80$ per person and get one free baggage per person. Cheapo air is forcing our family now to pay over 800$ for luggage. We are travelling for 3 weeks, can't travel with no luggage. No where on the web site there was information about different fares or options to upgrade. They are scammers, unprofessional and misleading. Stay away from that company or you will regret it Big time! Book directly with the company you would like to fly! Pls, people save your money or you will be like me with hundreds $ in additional costs!
Answer: I would not use Cheapo under any circumstances. Look at the 698 (!) complaints at the Better Business Bureau website. They hide under the name Fareportal, which is the parent company.
Answer: Don't use them. Book through the airline. I paid to select my seats, then a week before my flight they put me and my companion in the middle seats in different rows!
Answer: Security may not be an issue but they can cheat you by hiding information you should know. I would suggest to not use them and their customer service personnel are also worst I have ever seen.
Answer: Provide the 8 digit booking number and what you need assistance with. Our apologies for the inconvenience
Answer: You can't and they will steal your money like what they did to me
Answer: Because they are scam, they just want to steal money from our pocket
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