The U.S. DOT Won’t Hold United to Its Too-Good-to-Be-True Fares


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United may deserve consumers' wrath for many reasons. But as much as it pains us to say it, it didn't deserve this.

The United States Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings has determined that passengers who faked their location in Denmark to capitalize on mistake fares due to an error in currency conversion to Danish Kroner should not expect United airlines to honor those tickets. The Department was overrun by so many appeals for enforcement of its "fare advertiseme