The recent promotion from British Airways of giving people $40 tickets to India may be too excellent to be right. Originally, the lowest British Airways prices for flights to India are more than $750, not including taxes. So is it too excellent to be right?

To resolution that in the simplest way doable, yes. The $40 rate was posted the British Airways‘ Web site October 2nd at britishairways.com. Within minutes the airline realized the mistake and immediately pulled the offer from the site. But unfortunately for them, nothing dies easily on the Internet. 

For the next two hours, the deal remained on multiple online travel websites. The airline got more than 1,200 bookings for the $40 fare during that time, representing around 2,200 passengers.

Currently, British Airways and the U.S. Department of Transportation are finalizing reimbursements for this supposed mistake. British Airways has offered each passenger a $300 travel voucher. The airline will also consider reimbursing passengers who given up for lost other travel plans to take advantage of the deal.

Next time you want to travel or glide cheap, well, don’t get too excited if you find a running away deal that seems too excellent to be right.