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Estravel sells in ten days more than what was sold in a full year.
Estravel is a travel agency in Estonia, a european country near Russia. They sold 5 thousands dirt cheap airline tickets to the USA in just ten days, while in the whole 2007 they sold 3500 airline tickets.
How did they manage to do that?
The answer is simple. They charged for those dirt cheap airline tickets 4,000 kroons (the local currency) instead of the usual 10,000. To purchase those tickets that cost less than an half of the usual price, people started queues ouside Estravel Offices.
Sure those cheap tickets has some limitations, they are not refundable, and, in the case a passenger should change the date of travel, he has to pay a fine (which, anyway, even in this case the cost of the ticket will be lesser than 10,000), and you have to choose your destination from a list of USA cities and if you choose just one target it has to be Miami, but you can choose up to 5 targets.
Even with this limitations, Estravel maged to sell 5,000 dirt cheap airline tickets in just ten days, gaining more than 20,000,000 kroons. How did they’d manage to have such a low price we don’t know, but sure it has been a bargain for Estonian travellers willing to travel to the USA.
Ryanair under investigation by European Commission
After the cancellation of thousands of airline tickets in August, the European Commission decided to investigate if the decision from the biggest european low cost airline company to refuse travel tickets bought by customers on price comparison websites and not on Ryanair’s own website.
It is true that the airline’s term and conditions tell that the tickets that a traveller bought outside its official website will be rejected, with no refund or notice due by the company itself, but the Commission is now trying to understand if Ryanair broke any EU rule not allowing those kind of tickets to be used.
Some said that Ryanair’s decision to don’t allow any ticket purchase outside its own website could mean the end of comparison websites. Let’s see if a decision from EU lawyer will take back to life those sites, giving more opportunity to purchase dirt cheap airline tickets to customers around the world.