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New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« on: May 07, 2018, 02:43:17 PM »
I just noticed Expedia (and orbitz) added an option to pay for price protection if a flight goes down in price anytime between booking and the travel date. They refund the biggest difference you find within that time. You get the refund after you complete travel. The price for the protection is around 1.5% of the ticket. This may be worthwhile in some cases. I booked 7 tickets for the summer that dropped 140$ each when air France had 500$ tickets from TLV-NYC 2 weeks ago.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2018, 02:48:04 PM »
It's only 1.5% of the ticket? That seems really low. So for your $500 flight you only paid $7.50 for price protection insurance?

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2018, 02:50:25 PM »
There's already a thread on this. We'll try to find it soon (if TimT doesn't beat me to it).
Though, I was looking at a flight earlier today and I didn't notice the option

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2018, 02:54:56 PM »
It's only offering me the "Total Protection Plan" for some ridiculous amount of money.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2018, 03:04:42 PM »
It's only offering me the "Total Protection Plan" for some ridiculous amount of money.
it looks like they offer it for certain flights.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2018, 03:08:34 PM »
It's only 1.5% of the ticket? That seems really low. So for your $500 flight you only paid $7.50 for price protection insurance?
that's what it gave me for a few samples I checked.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2018, 03:19:40 PM »
There's already a thread on this. We'll try to find it soon (if TimT doesn't beat me to it).
Here it is:
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=81742.msg1772545#msg1772545

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2018, 03:32:38 PM »
Here it is:
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=81742.msg1772545#msg1772545
wow, thanx. I've booked many tickets in the past few weeks on Expedia and orbitz, and never seen this option till today.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2018, 03:43:29 PM »
Data Point:
Not showing for LY BOS-TLV-BOS.
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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2018, 03:50:22 PM »
Data Point:
Not showing for LY BOS-TLV-BOS.
 :(
Though, I was looking at a flight earlier today and I didn't notice the option
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Was planning on suggesting this plan to you (in the other thread), but I checked Expedia to see the exact cost and couldn't find it.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2018, 04:29:44 PM »
;)
Was planning on suggesting this plan to you (in the other thread), but I checked Expedia to see the exact cost and couldn't find it.
Thanks for looking out for me. :)

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2018, 09:18:33 PM »
 I was offered it yesterday for the first time

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2018, 10:50:45 PM »
They probably only offer it when their data shows prices are not likely to drop anymore.

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Re: New Expedia feature: price protection for flights.
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2018, 09:09:41 AM »
They probably only offer it when their data shows prices are not likely to drop anymore.
they definitely set the price according to the chances of it going down. From what I checked, the better bargain the flight is, the cheaper price protection is. Sometimes less then 0.5% of the flight cost.