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WARNING: Do not use this website to book your flight! Our flight from LAX to Cleveland was canceled

WARNING: Do not use this website to book your flight!
Our flight from LAX to Cleveland was canceled without notification! We had to purchase from another site, but it’s only few days away so we had pay so much more.
My daughter has a competition in Cleveland. I was searching for flights from LAX -> CLE and their site popped out as the cheapest. Within hours, they called us as well as sending email to let us know that the booking was canceled due to no availability for that price. They said we must upgrade in order to secure our booking and we agreed. (I didn’t have good feeling about it but it was still cheaper, so I thought let’s give it another try). After agreeing to pay more, they sent us email with confirmation. I was so happy that I found good deal. It was $250 cheaper than if I would had booked from another site, so $130 per person cheaper. Oh boy was I so wrong!!! And I regret to not go with my instinct.
3wks ago, I went on to United Airline to see if I could select seats. I didn’t see anything, but I thought maybe it was still far away.
2wks ago, I tried again. Still nothing! I sent the agent email to ask. The same agent we communicated back when they requested more $ to secure the bookings. No response, so I called and spoke to another agent. He said please call back 10days prior to your departure day. ***Note: the first agent never replied back to me.
Yesterday, 7days prior to our departure, I called because I still couldn’t see our itinerary on United website. At this time, my instinct was telling me “You are screwed” and it was right! Another agent told me “YOUR BOOKING WAS CANELED DUE TO TICKET SOLD OUT! SORRY!!!” And the worst was I never got any notification email. Imagine if I waited until couple days before we flight?
OMG… What the heck?!!! I was so upset and mad. I was mad at myself to not listen to my first instincts. When they first try to trick you into cheap price then telling you to pay more to secure the bookings, I should say no.
Now we have no choice but to pay at a much higher price because too close to our dates. Lucky, there are still exact same flight, same time and date, but at a much more cost. So they lied about “tickets were all sold out”
I have been using Priceline for over 1yr, and I should stick with them. Their prices are so far still the most compatible and the process was seamless. You get what you get. Never any tricks. This Cheapflightfares is nothing but a click bate.
Long story short: if I booked at Priceline, this flight would cost us around 980, but we paid 730 to Cheapflightfares. Now, same flight on Priceline cost 1,300 vs our booking was canceled from Cheapflightfares. At the end, we DIDN’T save $250. We paid $300 more plus the unnecessary stress to purchase from this website. I learned my lesson!!!
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SITE TO ANYONE! I wish I could give them a zero star.
Oh and they said our money will not be refunded in 20days. Now I have to call my credit card to make sure they refund back our money.
Check out Priceline. They are so honest and very easy to use!!!! Their customer supports are very good also.

Date of experience: Mar 01, 2026