5 cent flights but only 5000 seats
"Jetstar is planning the cheapest ever airfare sale in Australian history in an attempt to draw public attention away from Tiger Airways upcoming launch of domestic services
The Qantas low-cost offshoot plans to sell 5000 five cent fares (including taxes) on its website from 7pm tomorrow night on a handful of its routes."
I predict a server crash.
Only members of Jetstar’s Jetmail e-mail registration program will be offered the ultra-low fares.
The fares will only be offered on eight Jetstar routes.
The tickets are also for travel in the low winter season, more than six months away and on selected flights on the low-peak Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday daytimes.
The five cent tickets also entail a $2 credit card fee for people booking over the internet.
From The Age:
The fares will only be offered on eight Jetstar routes including Sydney to the Gold Coast, Melbourne to Hobart, Melbourne to Launceston, and Brisbane to Mackay, and for flights in the winter low season.
Arhh!!! No SA :(
Post on The Age:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Jetstar-offers-5c-far…
The fares will only be offered on seven Jetstar routes - Sydney to the Gold Coast, services from Melbourne to Hobart, Launceston and Newcastle and flights from Brisbane to Mackay, Rockhampton and Newcastle.
Available only on selected days between May 3 and June 3, and from July 29 to September 9,
Even better reading on The Age:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/travel/jetstar-warned-to-treat…
Summary: Cut-price airline Jetstar has been put on notice to treat its customers better or face possible action under the Fair Trading Act.
Lol, good ol' Fair Trading Act.
Thank you for replying to my comment from nearly 9 and a half YEARS ago. :)
Does it make you feel old? :p
Don't get too excited. I know someone who works there and they just told me that the booking system is down and unlikely to be working by 7pm.
That's not just internet bookings either … call centre staff use the same booking system that is routed through the website interface.
From Jetstar homepage:
Doh. 6:30pm, I thought I'd start testing their system and …
Jetstar.com
Jetstar
Jetstar is currently experiencing very high demand,
thank you for your patience and please check back again soon.
6:53pm I can't get into their site now. Just getting a blank webpage.
Can anyone get in?
It says on the Jetstar website, "only accessible from your sale jetmail". Hence, you can only access the sale from a link in an email delivered by Jetstar, not directly from the website.
When are we going to get this e-mail? Anyone got the e-mail yet?
At the moment I am also getting a server error on the Jetstar site "RUNTIME ERROR CONDITION" "can't write into… File too large at"…
hmh I got into Jetstar web smoothly but I haven't got their email yet!
Me too. It just the booking system that will not work.
Search for a flight and see if it works for you!
U're right the booking system is crushed. 7PM still no sign of email. :S
I hate to say I told you so… instead I'll just refer back to what I said 4 1/2 hours ago ;)
What a surprise! Based on earlier offers based on you needing the email it took HOURS to get the email. Some got it after the promo ended!! Their mailing list is bound to be huge so very few people will get it at 7pm. You've got to hope someone posts the link here.
Anyone got the e-mail?
Anyone got the e-mail yet?
Unable to process transaction
We are unable to process your booking at this time. Please try again in X:XX by refreshing the screen CTRL+F5 when the counter reaches 0:00 or contact one of our Reservation Centres.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
No jetmail yet :(
Same here. Nothing!
If someone's desperate enough for a fare they could try the phone centre and say the website is down - give it a shot!
I repeat: the booking system is down. Calling the phone centre will result in nothing but them telling you try and call back later.
Any chance they don't count in the Daylight Saving Time? Hence, the SALE starts at 8PM?
i read somewhere that this price is only available online, and not through phone centre.. but no harms calling them.
Unfortunately, we're experiencing some technical difficulties, and Jetstar.com is temporarily unavailable.
Our technicians are working on the problem, and we hope to have the site up again as soon as possible.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
That's it for me. I'm done trying.. or waiting to be exact. Good luck folks :)
getting the message:
method not allowed
Anyone got any tickets? I went to the link from Bargain4U but it just asked me to tell it my schedule. Didn't offer cheap flights or a discounted rate from Melbourne to Hobart.
Possibly I'm rushing too much and didn't see what to click on … ?
Also, same issue as linus
Yup, server is screwed. Man they're pathetic. Don't waste your night and wait for Tiger's next bargains (with a server that doesn't go down) due later this week.
Why is it always the Jetstar website that has problems and never Tiger? Hmm…
Oh and the link is http://www.jetstar.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi?mode=…
But you'll still get the "Method Not Allowed" error.
Enjoy your dinners people.
Good luck to those of you after flights.
My contact finished work at 7.30pm and when I heard from them 10mins ago, the booking system was still down, so I'm afraid I can offer no more "insider updates".
Does your friend work for SalesForce?
Yup.
Thanks Bargain4U
The site looks good.
But I'm getting that method not allowed on the Melbourne link
Same here:
This error (HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but the site has a programming error.
I've posted that email link on ozbargain…
I think you will find I posted it first.
Yes, but your links don't work :(
The link for this bargain doesn't even work :S We either need to fix this one and delete mine, or start talking over there as it has the working links.
Why would Jetstar do this? Surely it doesn't make them look good … I don't know if chasing cheap tickets would make me interested in looking for other flights from Jetstar or Qantas … puzzled
They had spare spots that would otherwise be left empty
I'M IN!!!
JUST BOOKED 5000 tickets to Newcastle, Hobart and Launceston!!
Well done!
Oh, wait a sec, are you being sarcastic :P
I am a little too distracted to pick up on that at the moment.
lol, yes.. he wouldn't be living very long if he did that.. I reckon there'd be a lot of people very peed off :P
Just booked a late july / early august trip from Gold Coast to Sydney for $4! Cheers everyone!
Well done!
I just keep getting
Method Not Allowed
Damn!
Same here.
I got a different message .
Sorry!
Thanks for your search.
Our footy finals sale is proving incredibly popular right across Australia, and our website is experiencing very high levels of demand right now.
We're working as hard as we can to help you find the fare you want.
In the meantime please try one of the following, as it may help you find what you're looking for:
Now it's taking me to the 5 cent booking area … then taking me back to the "sale is proving incredibly popular" page :S
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!! Got One!!!
Total Price 4.10
Aargh, every time it offers me, it then just takes me to the index page after I put in the dates
Now it's getting the Method not allowed again, and errors when trying to process my order.
I shouldn't have gotten into this … so aggravating when it errors … I thought I could walk away from this but no! :P
Given the way it was run and how it performed I'm now feeling very jaded about Jetstar :P
I've given up lol
From Jet* website:
<quote>
We are very sorry you missed out! Due to an overwhelming response, the Jetstar 5 cent sale has now sold out.
Keep your eye out for future JetMails with more great sales and offers.
No routes that I was looking for. Well done for those who got the bargain. Possibly the cheapest you could ever get. :)
Waits for the 1 cent sale fares lol
I've got cut-price airfare rage!!
I got the link from whirlpool, and after numerous error messages and refreshing the page umpteen times I was in the process of choosing flights at 8:30pm when we got hit with a blackout due to thunderstorm. At that time I still hadn't received my email from Jetstar. It seems to have been rather disorganized from that point of view.
Hey! I posted in the forums here 10 minutes earlier asking for a link to the actual promotion page. I am still waiting for that!