The airline ran a "midnight flash sale" right after I booked and now I'm out $140
I’m posting this here because I’m just completely flabbergasted by how airline pricing works. Last night around 8 PM, I finally pulled the trigger on a flight to Denver for a friend's wedding. It cost me $380, which felt reasonable at the time. I went to bed feeling good about having it sorted.
Well, I woke up this morning to a promotional email from that exact same airline announcing a 12-hour "midnight madness" sale. I checked my exact flight out of curiosity, and the price had plummeted to $240. I missed out on saving $140 by literally four hours.
I immediately called customer support, thinking surely they have a grace period for things like this. Nope. The agent told me that because the sale started *after* my purchase timestamp, they couldn't adjust the fare or offer a partial refund unless I wanted to cancel, pay a $150 change fee, and rebook which makes absolutely no sense mathematically. It’s infuriating. Has anyone found an app or an AI tool that actually watches for these weird sudden drops and automates the whole repricing or refund process? I can't keep doing this manually.