Due to a technical glitch on Delta Airline's website, some lucky fliers were able to book roundtrip flights from Cincinnati to Minneapolis for $25, the Associated Press reported.
From 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, there were some fares on the Delta website that were too good to be true. Some fliers were able to book a roundtrip between Cincinnati and Salt Lake City for $48.41, and Cincinnati and Minneapolis for $25.05, but both tickets are regularly priced $400, the AP reported.
Trebor Banstetter, a Delta spokesman said the problem was quickly fixed and "Delta will honor any fares purchased at the incorrect price," which they legally are binded to do after new Department of Transportation regulations were passed making it mandatory for airlines to honor any mistake fares offered, according to the AP.
According to Delta, the problem arrised from increased Traffic, the AP reported.
George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchDog.com, said the airline probably wanted to change their fares with a $1 or $20 system-wide change when a "junior programmer" probably "made a mistake or two," according to the AP.
"It looks like Delta's programmers had a little too much eggnog yesterday," Hobica told the AP.
Jackie Fanelli, 27, logged on to the Delta website too late after hearing through her friend's Facebook page about the cheap fares being offered on the website, the AP reported.
"It was too good to be true," Fanelli said of trying to book a round trip to Hawaii from her hometown of Baltimore for $98, the AP reported. "I try to go away every other year and this was not the year."
Delta is not the first to experience this type of mistake. In September United Airlines had a technical error in filing fares to its system and customers only paid the security fee, which is between five and $10, to fly, the AP reported.
"People just go wild. People have been bragging about booking six first-class tickets to Hawaii," Hobica told the AP. "People hate the airlines so much that when this happens, they say: I'm going to get back at you for the time you broke my suitcase and didn't pay for it."
