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You can still avail of our discounted tickets for students.

This is a sentence from an English material I used in a lesson (https://eikaiwa.weblio.jp/information/travel-english/travel-english-buy-a-ticket-1). Is this usage of "avail" correct? I learnt at school that you say "you avail yourself of something". Does this sentence still make sense without "yourself"? Or is this just an error of the writer?

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    You're right. You avail yourself of something. I might avail myself of it also. Others might avail themselves of it. A reflexive pronoun is required.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Feb 7, 2023 at 22:47

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Again, you're right. avail of our discounted tickets is not English.

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