{"id":74062,"date":"2019-01-02T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/02\/cathay-pacific-error-sees-16000-flights-sold-for-675\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:13:04","slug":"cathay-pacific-error-sees-16000-flights-sold-for-675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=74062","title":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific error sees $16,000 flights sold for $675"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline says it will honour huge accidental discounts on business and first-class faresIt was the New Year\u2019s Eve travel sale that appeared to be too good to be true: business and first-class flights on Cathay Pacific from Vietnam to New York for $675 (\u00a3534), rather than the standard $16,000.It turned out to be a ticketing error, but the airline promised to honour the sale. \u201cHappy 2019 all, and to those who bought our good \u2013 VERY good surprise \u2018special\u2019 on New Year\u2019s Day,\u201d the Hong Kong-based carrier tweeted on Wednesday. \u201cYes \u2013 we made a mistake, but we look forward to welcoming you onboard with your ticket issued. Hope this will make your 2019 \u2018special\u2019 too!\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/02\/cathay-pacific-blunder-offers-huge-discounts-on-first-class-tickets\" target=\"_blank\">Cathay Pacific error sees ,000 flights sold for 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline says it will honour huge accidental discounts on business and first-class faresIt was the New Year\u2019s Eve travel sale that appeared to be too good to be true: business and first-class flights on Cathay Pacific from Vietnam to New York for $675 (\u00a3534), rather than the standard $16,000.It turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}