Cathay Pacific sells $16,000 premium tickets for $675 in pricing error
 

Oh dear!

https://www.thenational.ae/business/...error-1.808614

CX will find a way to blame the pilots, and make them pay...

Chinese no logic.... Sent an aircraft out of the paint shop with wrong name failed to go take a look ??? Give Cathay back to the British they will sort it.

Sounds like someone got their HKD and USD mixed up when typing in the fares...

Cheaper than staff travel.

I was able to book a few of these in F for $1000 each RT.

See you on board.

Can just see the guy in the checkered suit

"Call me Crazy !
I got the lowest prices in town !
I lose money on every deal !
Folks ask me how I do it

One word -- VOLUME !"

wouldn't be surprised if this is a way to reduce profits to justify the new TA

If it was a pilot that made that mistake he would have been sacked on the spot, but because it was an office workers mistake, they'll put it down to "miscommunication" and he/she will carry on being incompetent within the company

Think you will find that this function (typing in fares) was outsourced to lowest bidder in India or Phillipines, rather than being a HK office worker. HK too expensive...

....and the hits just keep on coming. Well, we always have had the worlds best IT.... :rolleyes:

Oops, another mistake
 

And here we go again with another stunning example of ineptitude.

Not even days into 2019 and it looks like it will be another year of extremely expensive bungles; Data Breach + Selling Seats at massively incorrect prices (one article indicated the culprit was IT dept.), and here we go again.
I propose that what we are seeing here are the full throated benefits (consequences) of our esteemed "Time To Win" restructure program and with 361 days yet to go, hang on to your seats (no pun intended) and buckle up.

But then again, probably no need to worry as Merlin is now in charge and he must know what he is doing, yes ?

yeah but having made the mistake it's good PR. BA got hammered in the media when they refused to let people fly when they made a similar error last year

CX got a load of positive coverage in Europe and the USA in the last few days

No it is not an ID90; with these tickets you have a chance of receiving some human dignity when you check in, and you might actually be accepted for travel!

I don't know how many 'discounted' tickets were sold, but I gather it was not very many. The loss is probably far less than the cost of a comparable advertising campaign.

True. Free advertsing on the BBC for a day worldwide. Any publicity is good publicity even though the entire aviation world is laughing at your incompetence.