Anyone booked a flight on Booking.com before?

[twiningb]

I've used it numerous times for accommodation and am generally happy with the service, and it's also stackable with cashback through Cashrewards/Shopback/etc.

Now they have multiple short-haul Lufthansa Group flights I'm investigating, cheaper than Lufthansa themselves, who in turn are cheaper than Amex Travel. (I would have liked to use my Plat travel credit, but it's not worth overpaying for the flight to do that when I can book VA or QF at the same fares as their own websites.)

Is there a reason to not use Booking.com for airfares?

 

[clifford]

I (foolishly, as it turned out) made a booking on booking.com for a Ryanair flight a few months ago. This was because I couldn't book it on the Ryanair website as it was playing up (perhaps I should've tried the app).

Well, what a nonsense! For starters, this was processed by gotogate (based in Miami and who aren't all that communicative) and Ryanair insisted that I pay a EUR55 fee to check in at the airport (they don't like OTA's). If I had known this I wouldn't have booked, and in any case I just walked away from the ticket as the ridiculous check in fee was more than the ticket cost.

I just rebooked with BA and learned my lesson. Never book with an OTA!