COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES 866-636-9088 NY

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christy3377
Country: United States
Made an airline reservation, the tickets showed up on my credit card, along with a  charge with the above description.  When I called to try to understand, they said thats a "commission" from the airline.  Well its not a commission if I am paying them directly.  There is nowhere on the receipt which very conveniently does NOT show this broken out so yes, big surprise on statement.  The receipt DOES have a breakout of "OUR FEES" which was less than the charge.  THey said, oh thats not applicable, thats for call in reservations.  When I pointed out it said ONLINE, then he gave another excuse.  All that to say, they are very purposely omitting the service charge from their receipts.  If its all on the up and up, then why wouldnt you break it out, instead of causing alarm and confusion with a separate charge on your credit card.  Shame on Cheapoair for their deceptive practices.

Comments

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    terrlble terrible Cheapoair!!!!
    they charged me the fees for air ticket, then an additional 25 $ airline taxes and fees! I would never buy anything from that website ever!
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    A11ys0n
    Same thing happened to me! Just checked my credit card statement and $60 extra in charges under:

    COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES

    Im enraged. There should be a way to get that money back.
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    CheapoairIsRunByACheaterFromIndia!
    The dude who runs CheapOAir is a known scammer from India.

    I got the same charge!! After booking a reservation, I get charged $17 dollars by COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES 866-636-9088 NY 01/23 and then a COMPLETELY separate charge, the actual price of the ticket, which was $441.

    I used them before, and they NEVER did it like that in the past. But this year (2013) this is going on and I guess 2012 as well, judging by the age of the posts above.
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    CheapAirlineFeeCharged
    I got the same thing last night when I booked a last minute international flight. This morning I saw the bank alter that the COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES: one is $1.00, second time is $12.00, both amount are not part of the ticket and can't even be traced!! Who can stop them doing this to customers???
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    CheapOair
    | 4 replies
    The COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES, is our service fee which was included in the agreed upon price when you booked. We do advise you on your receipt you will be billed in two separate charges, one for the airline tickets, the second our service fee. If you add up the ticket value, and the service fee you should receive the agreed price. The 1.00 charge is a pre authorization fee that it used to validate the credit card being used, this is an authorization that will fall off your credit card usually within 72 hours. If you selected our Traveler Assist product as well as pre-assign seat map, you have agreed to the processing fee of $11.95, which will be charged at the time the service was selected. Feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions.

    Randrews
    sm@cheapoair.com
    Customer Support
    • 0
      Blake Johnson replies to CheapOair
      My wife got a coa of 100.00 what the hell is that?.
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      George Fontana replies to CheapOair
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      Re: Fly to Portland for Less with CheapOair!well let's start off with I was lied too by your non American employees that have terrible English and . I booked a flight from phx to portland maine and they took my card info and told me I had a flight before I got off the phone and that was false ... they waited two days to send me a email and tell me to rebook my booking has changed a "email" they should have called me back but never did . So when I noticed the email later that same day I called to speak with someone and the man that I spoke with had very poor English and I could barely understand him . He told me my card was declined I said that can't be right and he said is that all I can help you with today and I said no and he said please hold I will transfer you and he sent me to a servay..... nice guy he was . So I called my bank and they said there is no record of your card being charged or ran so ... I called the number again and spoke with a the "payment department " which told me my card was never ran and hold on a minute and transferred me back to the first people and they told me that the someone else got my flight and the transaction did not go threw . I said numerous time then why did you send me all the info of my booking confirmation he had no words and told me to go online and thank you for choosing cheap0air and asked if I could hold for a servay again !!!! . So I had to call once again and I asked for the supervisor or manager and the female would not transfer me she instead did all her normal prompt read lines I told her the entire Situation of how and what had taken place . I explained to her that if they would have called me back and told me that someone took my spot on the flight I could have easily booked another for a similar price of around $446 that included the insurance too . She told me the only thing she could give me was a flight she could give me would be 5 days later for $546 and she could not honer anything that I was told to my previous booking .So I took the flight she gave me and told her I wasn't ending the call till I got a ticket number and my card was charged . She got rude with me when I asked her why can't she honor my original flight and she said word for word , would you like to go online and do this yourself , that is horrible customer service , what is the point of having them if they treat people that choose your company to spend money with . You have been my flight company for 4 flights now I never thought I would lose money and be treated like I was . This is not the American way . The root of are people have respect and we honor are business and I'm a business owner of a company and I would never treat my customers in this manor I think my employees and I will book with someone else after this last flight I take unless this email is responded to in a timely manner with respect and a price match of my original flight I had booked . If there is no answer I will go elsewhere and will never refer you
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      Darlene politano replies to CheapOair
      U charged me too extra 17..00 will never use ur service very deceptive. I want my money back it does not add up to promised fee.
    • 0
      Allen Whitaker replies to CheapOair
      I cancelled my flight and yesterday got a charge called COA cheapair .. ???????
  • 0
    COA*AIRLINETAXES&FEES
    I bought at least 10 different tickets over cheapoair before and was never charged this fee until 2 days ago. I am mad because it is never on my bill and it was surprise. I am not using this site anymore!
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    Anonym
    same happened to me!! never again!
  • 0
    varun
    same happens to me.....should have read reviews about this website before....will never come back to this site again
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    varun deswal
    Hello!
    I just booked flights for my sister from Fresno (CA) to Perth( Australia), and while booking there were no charges mentioned.
    now I got this charges of $55.82 on my credit card. I am already paying INTL charges for Credit card, but what for this money

    can some one please explain me????

    quick response will be appreciated


    regards

    varun
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    Mariama Ndiaye
    Totally agree with you guys !
    To CheapOair, I don't remember having to select your "Traveler Assist product as well as pre-assign seat map" !
    So mad !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    fern marsh
    Same here.  Used Cheapo for several years with great success and without additional fees that were not documented in the initial agreement.  Now I'm charged $33 extra as a "Service Fee," which Cheapo took the liberty of adding to my credit card without my knowledge or agreement. No more Cheapo for me.
  • 0
    Not a new user of cheapoair.com
    Before purchasing tickets (sale tickets btw because I don't have much money) I put just enough to cover the plane tickets. Now a random $17 charge that I never agreed to (and I read everything and have used them before with out random charges popping up) is on my bank statement today. The actual cost of the tickets have not been yet taken-which is good because they would have caused me to overdraft!!!! Is this the only random charge (two one way tickets purchased) or will there be another one which will cause me to overdraft? WTF is this? Never happened before and I always purchase online. So not pleased and after this trip you will lose a regular customer. Bet I'm not the only one you will lose by pulling this shady practice. Go ahead cheapoair-bankrupt yourself by being greedy. Good for you.
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    Not a new user of cheapoair.com
    Btw-I took the seat that was assigned me. I opted for no extras and no map. Again-wtf.
  • 0
    calitos
    me cargaron 113 dolares por la compra  de tickets
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    SSA
    same happened to me!! never buy ticket from CheapoAir again!
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    disgruntleduser
    Same here I got charge 500 dollars extra fora two way ticket. This is extremely unprofessional. Not only will I stop using the cheapoair site from now on, I will also ensure that none of friends and family use it. Shame on you for conning your customers!

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