Booked a flight through Skyscanner vs direct airline last month and saved $84

I was booking a trip to Austin Texas for a weekend and noticed the price on Skyscanner was $84 cheaper than booking straight on the airline's site. The catch was it used a third party booking site I had never heard of called WhooAir or something. I went for it and the flight was fine no issues at all. But I did get nervous when the airline app didn't show my reservation for like 2 hours after booking. Has anyone else used those random third party sites and had it work out okay or did you get burned?

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nora1843d ago

oh man, that reminds me of the time I booked a hotel through one of those weird aggregator sites for a trip to Portland. I got a killer deal on a room near the river, but when I showed up at midnight, the hotel had no record of my reservation. The front desk guy was super nice though, he let me crash in the lobby couch while I called the third party site. It took like an hour on hold but they sorted it out and I got a free breakfast voucher for the trouble. So yeah, I get the nervousness about the airline app not showing it right away, that's happened to me too.

noahpark3d ago

wait, you slept on the lobby couch?! that's wild. i wouldve been so stressed out at midnight not knowing if i was gonna have a place to crash or not. props to you for just rolling with it though, i probably wouldve lost my mind. glad the front desk guy was cool about it, that couldve gone way worse.