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Hotel booking sites probed by consumer watchdogHotel booking sites are to be probed by the UK's competition watchdog to see if consumers are being misled by them.The Competition and Markets Authority is concerned that rather than helping consumers, the sites might actually be making it more difficult for them.
QuoteWoman pays £46 for flight to Greece – Gets ENTIRE PLANE to herselfA BRITISH woman paid £46 for a flight to Crete and got all 189 seats to herself.https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/travel-news/654695/Woman-pays-46-flight-Greece-plane-to-herself-Jet-2-holidays-Karon-Grieve-Crete-Glasgow
Woman pays £46 for flight to Greece – Gets ENTIRE PLANE to herselfA BRITISH woman paid £46 for a flight to Crete and got all 189 seats to herself.
That’s potentially a problem for airlines such as Jet2 which like to fly with 90-per-cent-plus of their seats filled, rather than 0.5 per cent as it was on flight LS193 to Crete last Sunday. The loss on the outbound flight will have been perhaps £15,000; But Jet2 isn’t concerned about how much it made on the way out, because it knew it would fill the plane completely and make a fortune on the way back with returning holidaymakers - who probably paid around £50,000 between them.In fact the charter airlines have been doing the same since the very first Horizon package to Corsica in 1950. Flying “empty legs” at the beginning and end of the season, is perfectly normal. All the budget airlines have done is said: “Well, the plane’s going there anyway, we might as well see if anyone is interested and hope to defray some of the cost.”
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QuoteHotel booking sites probed by consumer watchdogHotel booking sites are to be probed by the UK's competition watchdog to see if consumers are being misled by them.The Competition and Markets Authority is concerned that rather than helping consumers, the sites might actually be making it more difficult for them.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41769488
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