Air Travel Roulette: Germanwings Offers ‘Blind Booking’

Posted by Meredith Snyder on February 25, 2008
Filed under: Germany, Sidelines

Germanwings has a neat, if rather odd, promotion for people who love to travel but aren’t set on visiting a specific locale.

For 19-39€ inclusive, customers starting from six German cities can make a ‘blind booking’ and get a cheap ticket to any one of a number of destinations to be revealed when the booking is completed, depending on their starting point.

For a small fee, it’s possible to exclude cities you don’t want to visit (for me that was Zweibrücken, home to Germany’s largest rose garden – in February!), and it is neither difficult nor expensive to cancel if you change your mind. Even on discount airlines, you’re unlikely to find a cheaper ticket to Istanbul, Paris, Krakow, or Rome.

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Meredith Snyder was born on the edge of a continent and grew up slipping between languages and cultures. She has lived in Norway, France, and Eastern Canada, and travelled throughout Europe and the Americas. At the moment, she is working as a language assistant in Berlin, Germany.



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Comments

Amanda
February 25th, 2008 - 5:46 pm

I love these, we used to have “mystery flights” in Australia - very cheap, but you didn’t know where to until you arrived at the check-in counter. You had to come back the same day, too. But for me, flying from Perth, that always meant we flew somewhere far away - Sydney (5 hours) or Melbourne (4) - before budget airlines it was fantastic!


Mike
February 26th, 2008 - 11:25 am

My father told me how he and his college buddies used to do this back in the day. They’d show up at the gate and just grab a cheap flight to … wherever.

I love the idea, but when you have a 9-5 job, it makes these little spur-of-the-moment adventures almost impossible =(.