Flying for Thanksgiving • Hacker News Board

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by whamlastxmas » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 1:10 PM UTC

guru4consulting wrote: post #95

thrower123 wrote: post #55

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I hate gift cards. "Here, rather than crassly giving you actual money, I've spent that money on this company scrip that you can only use in one place. Aren't you excited?" Great idea, just brilliant. I'll add it to the stack of worthless iTunes cards and cards for restaurants that don't have a franchise within 500 miles...

totally agree with you. And some visa gift cards charge you monthly fee after activating them!! I had few cards that I forgot to use, and their value became $0 after a year. And I am also concerned about the environmental damage caused by millions of plastic gift cards.. all the way from sourcing, manufacturing, transporting and disposing them. And to certain extent, it forces over-consumption behavior. I got 2 kids,…

I could remember wrong but I don't think prepaid cards are allowed to charge fees like that anymore. It's why the up front cost of a prepaid Visa loaded with $50 is now more than $50, when it didn't used to be

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by josephpmay » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

lowpro wrote: post #21

josephpmay wrote: post #10

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I once got a $5 flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York on Christmas Day

Do you remember how you found it?

Yea, a promotional email from Jet Blue

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by jrnichols » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

As someone that is working in an airport on Thanksgiving, this is accurate.

and SFO's free wifi ssid really is kind of creepy.

i'm also amazed still at just how slow and awful a lot of AT&T wifi still is. They should be ashamed of how slow it is.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by potench » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

laken wrote: post #88

potench wrote: post #27

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Anecdotally, use the brave browser to look for hotels and flights. Since it blocks tracking I’ve heard you will see lower cost flights (I’ve also heard the converse that searching with iPhone/safari may result in higher prices.) https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9gkcow/brave_br...

This is quite an ancient myth of flight pricing, and I'd love to see it die, but alas it will not. Your cookies and/or browser fingerprint has basically no effect on flight prices. In addition, the "proof" provided on that subreddit has quite a few problems: A) That route is priced ridiculously anyway, and they are looking at Delta, who always price ridiculously. Delta doesn't care about price-conscious shoppers, so…

What about using a vpn to change your geo to try and get geo-based deals? This website appears to have some proof of this approach working: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/07/how-to-ge...