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Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

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Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

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Post by wongarsu »

Ekaros wrote: post #65
raverbashing wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> buy hotel booking data and increase your price because you already booked a non-refundable room Actually this is (usually) the opposite Tickets sold for tourism are usually cheaper than a non-tourism ticket to the same place, so the ticket might be conditioned to being sold together with a hotel booking (travel agents like selling those combos)

Wouldn't combo be more expensive? As there is increased risks to travel agents. Flight+Hotel is considered a package and you have to provide, replace or refund both if one falls through. The difference with tourism is that usually they are not refundable or have quite limited refundability and these all thus sold for less.

Tourists are typically more price sensitive, so airlines look for ways to sell cheaper flights to tourists while still charging everyone else more. Package deals are one way to achieve that

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

gambiting wrote: post #56
smcl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could be due to the added consumer protections and rights you get within the EU - regulations on how the airline should treat you when they cancel flights or when they arrive late etc?

Those apply to every passanger regardless of where they are from - as long as the flight departs from or arrives to an EU country you get full protection as passangers.

That's not true. The EU consumer protection laws apply to you if you bought the tickets from their EU legal entity.

If your flight is cancelled you get it refunded or monetary compensation only if you bought it from the EU website of the airline. If you bought it form another country, then the laws of that country apply. It's simple.

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Post by PaulIH »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #72
gambiting wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those apply to every passanger regardless of where they are from - as long as the flight departs from or arrives to an EU country you get full protection as passangers.

That's not true. The EU consumer protection laws apply to you if you bought the tickets from their EU legal entity. If your flight is cancelled you get it refunded or monetary compensation only if you bought it from the EU website of the airline. If you bought it form another country, then the laws of that country apply. It's simple.

EU air passenger rights apply no matter the airline or where you purchased them from if your flight is from the EU or within the EU. If your flight is to the EU they only apply if it's a EU airline. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...

Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

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Post by harvey9 »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #72
gambiting wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those apply to every passanger regardless of where they are from - as long as the flight departs from or arrives to an EU country you get full protection as passangers.

That's not true. The EU consumer protection laws apply to you if you bought the tickets from their EU legal entity. If your flight is cancelled you get it refunded or monetary compensation only if you bought it from the EU website of the airline. If you bought it form another country, then the laws of that country apply. It's simple.

That's not true either. Full rules are here https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...

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Post by haunter »

It's the same with train tickets in Europe!

I live in Budapest and regularly have to go to Wien. If you buy the ticket from the hungarian railways it costs the half or less than compared to the austrian railways.

Example: next monday

Hungarian BP>Wien https://i.imgur.com/9rZgB8c.png

Austrian BP>Wien https://i.imgur.com/mn95IrV.png

Hungarian Wien>BP https://i.imgur.com/GymMOaW.png

Austrian Wien>BP https://i.imgur.com/zN3VCDv.png

I always tell my friends coming from Germany or Austria to buy tickets from the hungarian railways because it's much cheaper.

Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

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Post by dagw »

habitue wrote: post #37

Do travel agents have some benefit when travelling internationally or something? I have not heard about travel agents since the 90s. Maybe I'm missing some incredible deals? I kinda expected them to not exist any more

They're useful when traveling for work. Not because they can find you better deals (they rarely do), but because they can save you time. You can book a flight, train, hotel and even tickets to the game/show you want to take a customer to with a single call and get all costs on a single invoice sent in the correct format, to the correct address with the correct fields filled in for the invoicing system. There is also a single 24 hour phone number to call if things go wrong where you can instantly talk to someone who can sort out whatever the problem is.

But as I said, none of this involves actually saving money

Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

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Post by fwlr »

tcmb wrote: post #50
fwlr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The poster lives in SFO and wants to visit XYZ for a week once a year. Rather than buy SFO->XYZ->SFO tickets (which are packages that consist of “a flight from SFO to XYZ on the 1st of April” and “a flight from XYZ to SFO on the 8th of April”), the poster instead buys XYZ->SFO->XYZ tickets (which are packages that consist of “a flight from XYZ to SFO on the 8th of April” and “a flight from SFO to XYZ on the 1st of Ap…

Couldn’t the price difference be due to booking so far in advance?

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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Post by qwertox »

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