37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned

Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by slg on Monday September 14, 2015 @12:34PM (#10215923)

For what it is worth, flights between the UK and the US are some of the most heavily taxed flights in the world. Sometimes you are better off with a connecting flight from a European carrier that stops somewhere like France or Ireland.

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Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by fendale on Monday September 14, 2015 @01:38PM (#10216274)

I live in Belfast so I can either use a UK airport (Belfast), or Dublin. In my previous job, we flew business class from the UK to San Fran fairly regularly. It was often £500 - £1000 cheaper to fly Dublin to SFO connecting through London than Belfast -> London -> SFO. Infact, even pricing the London to SFO on the same flight (leaving out the Belfast leg), it was £500 cheaper to start in Dublin.

The price difference was all tax - and lots of it!

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Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by arprocter on Monday September 14, 2015 @03:32PM (#10216970)

The strangest thing I've come across was saving several hundred pounds by booking a return flight instead of one way, and just not using the flight back.

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Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by JoshGlazebrook on Monday September 14, 2015 @08:39PM (#10218345)

This is what SkipLagged does for customers.

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Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by stephenc_c_ on Monday September 14, 2015 @01:35PM (#10216255)

I started a recent flight from LHR to SFO in DUB and saved about £1000 in business class. The flight actually went DUB-LHR-SFO so you end up going back to where you started, but it worked out significantly cheaper!

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Re:37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned by nly on Monday September 14, 2015 @01:09PM (#10216092)

Last two times I've been I've not been able to find an advantage in doing so.

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