““First they will dangle a carrot of unbelievable low cost fares that once you submit payment, your money is virtually all but lost. With exorbitant and unrealistic fees also levied for their services on your credit card. Sound familiar? They follow that up with a phone call to you stating that one of the flights in your itinerary is over booked, therefore to secure the connection flight the consumer must absorb additional questionable costs and the original amount is non refundable. Buyer BEWARE. Legitimate carriers who want your business will always try to make things right by offering to provide a voucher or credit. This was not the case with theses small brained crude con artists. Luckily, when the person on the phone call I got to potentially siphon a $190.00 more from me, I refused. I demanded that he escalate to management. He explained that they wear busy and could not do so then or call me back for that matter. This is where they begun to falter. Do not BUY into their these pressure/stall tactics over the phone either basically holding your trip plans\money in the aggregate and in limbo. They finally mentioned they could take the money themselves off my credit card and sent an email to confirm that I agreed to pay the additional cost. Which is also false. Please know that the email they send is just click bait. IGNORE all correspondence. However I would recommend keeping the messages as they serve as evidence in your favour to prove your case and are best left untampered with. My best advice is to cancel your credit used to perform the transaction. Failing that also report this thinly veiled systemic fraud to the authorities. Trust me when I say that these idiots and I am being polite are on their radar too. I now am working with my credit card company and letter champ to dispute the charges.”
“We booked few flights with FT and it was a good experience as we found the best price as compared to the other travel agents and they were so quick to get the tickets issued and they even helped us in Check in online. We will surely recommend to friends and family.”
“Do not ever, EVER, deal with this company. If lucky, you’ll simply get scammed. If not, you’ll get robbed: losing thousands of dollars and your nerves.
Read below for details.
If you are lucky enough, here is what happens:
You see a listing for very competitive air fares that they offer. Excited about the deal: you book it. You think your trip is now all set and wait for the tickets… But they never come. Instead, one of their agents calls you saying that the seats are “not guaranteed” at this price, that you have to pay extra if you want to have them « guaranteed ». You decide to go on and pay the extra charge to avoid the hassle of searching and rebooking elsewhere. Then... still no tickets. They will eventually call you again saying the price has changed because the airline company raised their rates. You ask for a refund, but the process to get that refund is so overwhelming that you eventually end up paying the extra charge once again.
You finally get your tickets… At an even higher price tag than if you had purchased them directly from the airline company in the first place.
Since you’ve been nervous and stressed out for 3 days due to unpleasant back and forth with the agent, you are now relieved to have your tickets. This is when they start arrassing you to get a good review. Tired and drained due to all the shenanigans, you end up doing it. Hence the few positive reviews they get. Kind of like Stockholm syndrome if you will.
A very well oiled scheme anyway.
I started mentionning that all of this was “if you were lucky” which was the case for a friend of mine. I unfortunately heard about his experience after having my own experience with them.
My experience was much simpler: I paid, never got the tickets, refused to pay the extra money they asked for, they did not refund me… Not a scam, just pure highway robbery.”
“Je vois une publicité crédible alléchante alors je clique tout semble parfait il prennent le paiement mais 10 minutes plus tard je reçois un appel disant que le vol de retour n’est pas accessible alors j’aurais des frais supplémentaires A ce moment je demande d’annuler il me dit que c’est impossible... Que leur site est clair à ce sujet site qu’on ne voit pas quand on réserve !
mon erreur alors Je me sens coincée alors j’approuve les frais supplémentaires.... il me dit dans 2 jours tu auras tes numéros de confirmation les deux jours passent j’ai rien ça traîne pour 10 jours en tout un coup les billets confirmés je vois immédiatement sur le mail que j’aurais pu annuler les premier 24h sans frais et passer ça avec des frais de 150$ ce qui ne m’a jamais été offert alors à mon dernier appel pour annuler le voyage du au corona virus en plus du fait de m’avoir fait arnaqué il me dit clairement qu’une fois que j’ai eu la confirmation c’est trop tard j’aurais du le faire avant ......
quelle arnaque j’ai appris toute une leçon
Je vais vérifier avec ma carte de crédit afin d’avoir un recours et contacter protection du consommateur mais surtout publier sans relâche pour que d’autres ne soit pas victime........”
“Flighttrotters is absolutely an online fraudulent group that scams money from innocent people based on the following facts:
1 This company pretends to be an international company with three offices and three websites, i.e., flighttrotters.co.uk (UK), flighttrotters.ca (Canada), and flighttrotters.com (US). However, these three websites use a single IP address, which is 88.208.221.151. This means that their three websites are operated by a single server.
To find the IP address from a website, simply type in the website address in this website:
https://hostingchecker.com/
2 They are using a fake address for three of their websites, which is a UK address “Profile West 950 Great West Road Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 9ES”. If you search for this physical address, it is an address of a totally irrelevant company. See the website of that company https://www.safetykleen.eu/uk/contact-us .
Flighttrotters hides their real address to avoid lawsuit but they are stupid enough to know it’s so easy to find out their real address. For instance, the domain name flighttrotters.ca is registered with the North American based web provider GoDaddy, where shows their address is in Ontario of Canada.
3 The way they scam their customers is that first they post very attractive flights online, such as NON-STOP, much cheaper, nice time, etc. to have people to book with them. However, as soon as you book it and pay for it, your nightmare starts. Immediately you will receive a call from this scammer telling you that there is a glitch on your booking, such as another customer booked your flight a few minutes before you so they have to change your booking. Then, with a new booking, they will increase the price more than other agencies. If you say, no, I don’t want it, please return my money. They will say, no, you cannot because your booking is Non-Refundable! AND, you will never get back your money until you start some legal action to force it back.
In my case, I accepted their “new” booking and paid the extra. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 we cancelled our cruise trip and consequently we had to cancel the flight. Then the flighttrotters refused to cancel it for us. We had to contact the airline customer service directly. The airline understood the situation and refunded our full payment back to flighttrotters. However, this scammer will never have the money back to us. They simply don’t response our emails and calls. After three weeks fighting with them, our phone number was blacklisted by them!
4 Now, we have started our legal actions to charge back our money. In addition, we also did the following:
a. Tell our story in all major company reviewing websites like this one.
b. Post this fraudulent company in Facebook, YouTube and Twitters.
c. Report their scams to their website host, for instance, GoDaddy in North America.
d. Alert the security department in all airlines about their fraudulences and put this scammer in blacklist.
e. Start a lawsuit to this company.”
“Flighttrotters is absolutely an online fraudulent group that scams money from innocent people based on the following facts:
1 This company pretends to be an international company with three offices and three websites, i.e., flighttrotters.co.uk (UK), flighttrotters.ca (Canada), and flighttrotters.com (US). However, these three websites use a single IP address, which is 88.208.221.151. This means that their three websites are operated by a single server.
To find the IP address from a website, simply type in the website address in this website:
https://hostingchecker.com/
2 They are using a fake address for three of their websites, which is a UK address “Profile West 950 Great West Road Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 9ES”. If you search for this physical address, it is an address of a totally irrelevant company. See the website of that company https://www.safetykleen.eu/uk/contact-us .
Flighttrotters hides their real address to avoid lawsuit but they are stupid enough to know it’s so easy to find out their real address. For instance, the domain name flighttrotters.ca is registered with the North American based web provider GoDaddy, where shows their address is in Ontario of Canada.
3 The way they scam their customers is that first they post very attractive flights online, such as NON-STOP, much cheaper, nice time, etc. to have people to book with them. However, as soon as you book it and pay for it, your nightmare starts. Immediately you will receive a call from this scammer telling you that there is a glitch on your booking, such as another customer booked your flight a few minutes before you so they have to change your booking. Then, with a new booking, they will increase the price more than other agencies. If you say, no, I don’t want it, please return my money. They will say, no, you cannot because your booking is Non-Refundable! AND, you will never get back your money until you start some legal action to force it back.
In my case, I accepted their “new” booking and paid the extra. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 we cancelled our cruise trip and consequently we had to cancel the flight. Then the flighttrotters refused to cancel it for us. We had to contact the airline customer service directly. The airline understood the situation and refunded our full payment back to flighttrotters. However, this scammer will never have the money back to us. They simply don’t response our emails and calls. After three weeks fighting with them, our phone number was blacklisted by them!
4 Now, we have started our legal actions to charge back our money. In addition, we also did the following:
a. Tell our story in all major company reviewing websites like this one.
b. Post this fraudulent company in Facebook, YouTube and Twitters.
c. Report their scams to their website host, for instance, GoDaddy in North America.
d. Alert the security department in all airlines about their fraudulences and put this scammer in blacklist.
e. Start a lawsuit to this company.”
“This company along with sister company Flighttrotters.ca is a scam. They lure you to book a flight with them by posting very low fares on line, once you book they call you requesting additional fees for some reason or another. If you refuse, they will not reimburse you the original amount paid. You are obliged to go through your credit card company to recover your money.”
