American Airlines Double-Dog Dares You To Find a Lower Fare

May 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Usually when you find a lower fare on a travel booking website, you tend to jump for joy at your bargain hunting skills. But this time around, it actually pays to book directly through the airline and pay a little more. That's because American Airlines offers travelers a Lowest Fare Guarantee. Here's how it works:

If you find the exact same flight and itinerary for at least $5 less on another web site the same day you made your flight purchase on American, the airline will actually refund you the difference and give you $50 airfare credit to be used for a future flight.

Sweet! But it will take a bit of work to let American know that another site has their flight for cheaper.

If you don't know how to take screenshots on your computer, then you better learn now. To receive the refund and the $50 credit, the airline asks that you fill out an online claim form. This form must be submitted before midnight CT on the same day the ticket was purchased.

You will also need to copy the URL and provide screenshots of the Itinerary Confirmation or Flight Summary page and Fare Results and Restrictions page. (These pages are prior to the Purchase Confirmation page; however, no purchase is necessary.)

Then you submit all of the following to AA to get the refund and the credit. There's no time frame for the turnaround but for a refund and a $50 credit, we think we can sit it out.

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