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Qantas mistakenly sold first-class tickets for bargain prices. Here’s why it made sense for the airline not to honour the deal in full

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par Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath

Australia’s largest airline, Qantas, recently put a deal on its website offering heavily discounted first-class tickets for return flights between Australia and the US. Customers alert and lucky enough to capitalise found themselves paying 85% less than the usual first-class fare, which is upwards of A$20,000 (£10,300).

The problem? The offer was a mistake due to a coding error. The airline soon realised this and took it down. It then decided to switch the roughly 300 customers who had made the purchase…

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