{"id":2680,"date":"2013-09-13T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2013-10-04T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T06:59:07","slug":"error-on-united-airlines-web-site-results-in-free-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/error-on-united-airlines-web-site-results-in-free-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Error on United Airlines Web site results in free fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For fifteen tense minutes on 12th September afternoon, United Airlines\u2019 fare booking engine was operating at full steam. Someone, likely a Flyertalk user, noticed that fares between Washington DC and Minneapolis were pricing at $10 and posted his finding onto the forum. Attention grew rapidly, with over 100 replies in just an hour, and the news spread to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The glitch in the system appeared to offer $0 fares plus $5 in tax for many domestic flights, and was apparently caused by human error. Some forum readers reported finding $10 flights between Washington DC and Hawaii, while others scooped up over a dozen tickets to destinations all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57602742-93\/error-on-united-airlines-web-site-results-in-free-fares\/\">Cnet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For fifteen tense minutes on 12th September afternoon, United Airlines\u2019 fare booking engine was operating at full steam. Someone, likely a Flyertalk user, noticed that fares between Washington DC and Minneapolis were pricing at $10 and posted his finding onto the forum. Attention grew rapidly, with over 100 replies in just an hour, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/error-on-united-airlines-web-site-results-in-free-fares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Error on United Airlines Web site results in free fares&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-He","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}