Originally Posted by
sheerluck
They are called DeathStar in my house. :D
I look upon them with a slightly different attitude. For a start, I'll only book DeathStar when I can get fares that are in the bus fare price range, and then turn up expecting nothing more glamorous than a bus.
So I've had flights that cost 5c (yes, really!), $1, $5, buy-oneget-one-free flights, and a grand tour flight OOL-SYD-MEL-HOB-MEL-SYD-OOL over the space of two weeks that cost me $270 in total for 4 of us.
Along with cancellable accommodation in case of issues, and have not had a problem yet.
The closest we had to a problem, was trying to use the 5c fare. Tried the usual online check in, and it said no. We hit the airport early "just in case", and the check in lady said no as well. It was only at the customer service desk, and the lady there making a couple of calls, that we finally got checked in, and on our way. Don't know to this day what the problem was, but we managed to fly 1500km as a family of 4 for 40c.
If however, I was paying a fare that was close to a full service airline (and sometimes some of their fares are pretty stupidly priced) then I wouldn't touch DeathStar. For the sake of $20 or so, I'd go the full service airline, purely for when things go wrong.
