14 DAY TRIAL // Either a serious glitch happened in online travel agency eDreams' matrix for no apparent reason, or flying is now way more expensive than, say, building a Roman-style villa on the moon.
Not to beat about the bush, it was not too long ago that, while trying to book a flight from the city of Birmingham in England, UK, to Faro, Portugal, a woman was told that this trip would cost her several hundred buckets full of money.
A jaw-dropping price tag
The woman says that, having selected her point of departure and her destination on eDreams, she had the online travel agency show her how much her planned trip would cost.
Much to her surprise, the jaw-dropping figure returned was the following: £23,659,382,125.95. For those who aren't very fond of British currency, that's €30,272,000,000 / $38,599,600,000.
Or well over £23 billion (€29 billion / $37 billion). Write it however you will, the fact of the matter is that there is no way on Earth that anyone would ever pay this much money to fly anywhere in the world. Except Mars, maybe.
The woman, identified as Marion Sessions from Derbyshire, snapped a screenshot of the outrageous price tag, which she later posted on Facebook, Birmingham Mail informs. You can find the screenshot below this article.
As noticeable in this photo, it wasn't the plane ticket that cost this much money. Thus, it was the luggage fees that the woman was expected to pay that had driven up the cost of her trip from England to Portugal.
“How's this for a great price? I have just tried to book cheap flights... for a weekend trip to stay with some good friends,” the woman wrote in the message accompanying the screenshot on Facebook.
“I duly booked and fortunately was alert enough to realise - before clicking ‘confirm’ that the final cost was the truly – as advertised – great price of £23,659,382,125.95!!! I don't think our current account would have run to it this month,” she added.
The most likely explanation
It is understood that eDreams offers flights with Monarch and Ryan Air. Although it is still unclear which of these airlines was hoping to charge this woman the jaw-dropping sum of money, chances are that the entire incident was no more and no less that a hiccup in the system.
Thus, the most likely explanation is that a database error was the reason the online travel agency coughed up the mind-boggling price tag. Representatives of eDreams have until now refused to make any comments on this incident.
