Is this a normal ocurrance?
","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52322726","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sm9690"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T17:43:52.000Z","text":"The flight was a third empty when they asked if you wanted to pay for seats.
That's completely irrelevant, loads of people don't pay for seating and get allocated seats at check-in for free"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52323231","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Misslovely"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T19:11:06.000Z","text":"All airlines do this if there’s lots of you going and booking the seats. I might go cheaper later or might not at all"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52323221","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Russ2626"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T19:09:23.000Z","text":"It's a really scummy practice but I've had this before (with Ryanair and Tui). Not only did they increase the price while booking but I then had to restart the whole booking process. They generally increase the price of seats as the flight fills up so someone probably booked just before you did."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52323631","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gollywood"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T20:09:42.000Z","text":"Very normal."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52324038","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"plebbygiraffe"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T21:20:53.000Z","text":"Very normal indeed. For two reasons, pricing is based on demand and whilst you may say it is a third empty, that's just another way of saying it is two-thirds full. Even 1 seat sold is demand. It will vary from completely empty to completely full as well as how close you are to departure.
The second factor is a bit of a technical one, and that is that a live lookup of pricing might take a moment to check so in order to provide results as quickly as possible to users some systems cache information for a while, and only do the live check when you proceed to the next step. So search results might have pricing that's updated say every half hour, or every hour that type of thing and if a user does proceed to the next step and discovers a new live price it will update that cache.
So for most people it'll be a correct figure, but someone will encounter a price change at some point."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52324431","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Chiptivo"},"datePublished":"2024-03-04T22:24:06.000Z","text":"Stick to Ryanair if you want budget flights. Never had a problem with them if you stick to their rules."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52329641","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"jinkssick"},"datePublished":"2024-03-05T19:22:46.000Z","text":"This is usual. use incognito mode. as it tracks with cookies and they cheekily increase the price."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52357824","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"wpj"},"datePublished":"2024-03-10T11:22:01.000Z","text":"I finally went BA as it was cheaper than the \"low cost\" carriers when cabin baggage was added!"}],"commentCount":23,"interactionStatistic":3,"articleSection":"Ask"}