For 2 tickets it charged me £7.80 in total and gave me my booking ref code for the easyJet app 
definitely losing money I’d imagine
Definitely, good job then. All the fares on there I can see have £13.10 tax minimum with fares at like 60p
Where you flying from? 
Gatwick
Ah I just noticed - they have one ticket (or booking) at the lowest price so they can say “from” when in reality they sell out and nobody gets that price except one person.
So definitely lucky there!
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Managed to get 3 tickets, but yeah seems to be gone now so definitely got a bit lucky there!
And then when the plane is 200% overbooked you’re the first to be booted off.
Don’t they have to get me there at some point?
They do. Though a lot of these airports will only be EasyJet or Ryanair so they could say “we don’t have any flights until next week” and “here’s a refund”.
Though I don’t know if that’s actually commonplace.
It’s actually a really annoying practice - if you look on the website all of the lowest prices had “1 sale ticket - sold out” with the actual prices 7-10x higher (still cheap mind you) so other than the lucky one (such as you) nobody really gets that price. “From” does technically still stand here but I think there should be a minimum “From” to be able to draw people into a sale with.
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I guess yeah, there are later flights that day that weren’t (yet) offered for pennies but I guess for the sake of £4 I’m happy to take the risk, and hopefully travel insurance would cover the return flight and accommodation if I prebook, but not sure of that
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Krrching… €250 compensation 
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I’d rather get to my destination how and when I planned than pocket the money and potentially lose my hotel reservation.
Has anyone here ever actually had an oversold flight with a budget airline? I’ve seen it in movies a lot sure, but fly with them pretty frequently and I’ve never had it happen
I’d imagine trip.com offered the £4 price to at most 30-50 people on each of these flights, the times are pretty awkward for most working people, not a weekend or any holidays, and I’ve often grabbed the last seat or two on a flight and been fine
Dare I quote the DM here but it seems to pretty much say they are only not considering bumping vulnerable people or people who need special assistance - Easyjet reveals which passengers are least likely to be bumped from an overbooked flight - I don’t think the people at the gate are checking how much you paid for your ticket
It won’t be anywhere close to that number. Airlines cannot afford that at all, margins are too small.
Like I said, every single Trip.com sale had only one booking at the lower rate. You just lucked out.
Interestingly the terms of these sales are governed by the law of Singapore and the courts of Singapore will have jurisdiction over any dispute.
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I got 2 and then when a third friend replied about 10 minutes later another one, though that flight is gone from Trip now there are still quite a few £4 flights live i.e the 7th October LTN → FAO
Not sure how but I don’t see that at all when I search.
Yeah I searched that and nothing like that came up. How weird:
It’s almost like you have special rates or some kind of credit on your account.
Anyone been to Bruges before? And was it any good?. Tempted by a wee trip/city break. Always been a fan of the in Bruges film so would quite like to go.
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I have, it’s very nice, but not very big. A day trip will do, or just over if you want to see everything.
I went with a Saturday morning Eurostar and back Sunday evening and felt like I was aimlessly walking around by Sunday afternoon. But then I didn’t want to visit the beer or fry museums.
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