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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by tcmb on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:30AM (#35336733)
Couldn’t the price difference be due to booking so far in advance?
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by selcuka on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:58AM (#35336898)
I'm sure they compared the prices for SFO -> XYZ -> SFO with XYZ -> SFO -> XYZ for the same dates.
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by atdrummond on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:20AM (#35337039)
Possibly but my flights to SF from Europe are routinely half the price for a round trip the other direction on the same dates/airline.
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by fwlr on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:47AM (#35337202)
Maybe. My experience with booking international flights at various schedules from “tomorrow” to “1 year in advance” is that airlines don’t give a discount for booking far in advance, past about one week out it’s all the same. I haven’t investigated thoroughly, though.
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by AdamN on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:41AM (#35337551)
I find 2 and 4 weeks to be the magic cutoff points for discounts but maybe I'm just seeing a pattern where none exists.
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by fwlr on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:33AM (#35337962)
Also plausible. Given that even when you book a year in advance you are booking a specific flight time, I don’t see many big efficiency wins for airlines here.
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Re:Can you buy the same flight for less if you use a VPN? by leviathant on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:15AM (#35342428)
Trade and tariff negotiations between countries comes into play, too. It was a while ago now, but I remember looking at a round trip flight to Sydney from the US. The same two planes, in different order (round to the US from Sydney) was half the price. I hadn't planned a year in advance, so I couldn't pull the trick mentioned above.
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