4 years ago, the best mistake fare I’ve ever seen
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This week marks the 4 year anniversary of the first and quite possibly the best mistake fare I’ve ever seen. I thought I’d take a look back at what those of us in the travel hacking community affectionately called “The Great Dane”
The mistake fare
On February 11, 2015, I woke up to find several posts on the front page of Boarding Area regarding a mistake fare. United.com was selling FIRST CLASS tickets from Europe to the US for about ~$90. The only “trick” was that you had to set your billing country to Denmark to get the fare.
While I had never taken advantage of a mistake fare before, I did book 2 tickets from London to Cincinnati and then back to London
Total cost – 1,182 DKK, or about $170 USD…
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