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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 yanellena »

madsbuch wrote: post #95
pjc50 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions. The opinion that it should be addressed or not? Because there's no feasible route to addressing it that doesn't involve reducing fossil emissions.

> that doesn't involve reducing fossil emissions. You can fly an airplane on non-fossil fuels. As the original commenter also said: He'd rather focus on earning money than saving a bit. Maybe that opinion translates to the climate debate? Maybe he wants to produce large amounts of energy with limited externalities instead of saving a bit.

>You can fly an airplane on non-fossil fuels.

Not at the scale of commercial airlines though and certainly not (yet) as cheaply.

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

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Post by madsbuch »

sampo wrote: post #98
madsbuch wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the commenter does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions. I definitely understand your sentiment. It is hard to restrain oneself of a good for some cause to see other people using it. In this case it might be productive to adapt a new view that better suits reality and increases congruence between ideas about the world and imperics.

> Maybe the commenter does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions. There really isn't any other way to address climate change than by reducing emissions.

There is a plethora of alternatives. Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. bio-fuels is another alternative (though it might not scale).

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

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Post by AdamN »

fwlr wrote: post #79
tcmb wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

WheatMillington wrote: post #91
yosito wrote: post #67

I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…

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You are a climate masochist. I recommend emotionally disengaging from topics that cause you grief and that you absolutely can not impact. The thought of personal CO2 emission reduction behavior having any kind of measurable impact on the climate is laughably naive.

I recently had to figure out the cheapest flights I could find to keep my star alliance frequent flier status, which I was at risk of losing because covid changed my business travel behavior. So in the end I was just visiting random European cities, sometimes with a connecting flight (I was keeping my status via flight segments).

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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

autoexec wrote: post #57
htag wrote: post #26

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This type of price discrimination isn't powered by surveillance capitalism. Using the example in the first answer on the stackexchange, this is nothing more than selling the same ticket at a different price to someone walking up to a United counter in USA compared to someone walking up to a United counter in AU. Surveillance capitalism powering price discrimination sounds scary, but there seems to be few examples of…

> This type of price discrimination isn't powered by surveillance capitalism. Yes it is. That's why people who book flights using an Apple computer will pay more ( https://www.imore.com/mac-users-might-be-paying-more-pc-user... ) they're pricing based on their best assumptions about your income level. Their dream is that they'll be able to just use facial recognition, or grab your ID from your cell phone, or force yo…

>Yes it is. That's why people who book flights using an Apple computer will pay more they're pricing based on their best assumptions about your income level.

There is no claim of this on the article you linked and no proof of it. It says “could be”, which is unsubstantiated.

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

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Post by AdamN »

aubanel wrote: post #35
rhtgrg wrote: post #4

Recently I paid to book better seats on an Air France flight and since the website was a hot mess (specifically the payment portal) I tried various VPNs to try and get through. To my surprise, prices were significantly different (about ~20% variation) depending on country, and it was most expensive in...France. This was on a flight that had already been booked from the US long ago.

I heard this is a common practice for cars: a french car will be sold at cheaper prices outside France. Home country adds a premium on car prices because they count on nationals to have a slightly higher willingness to pay for local brands.

Wineries do that too - often the bottles are cheaper in the liquor store hundreds of miles away than they are at the tasting room.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

yosito wrote: post #67

I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…

Why book through Kiwi or Skyscanner if booking through Chase earns triple rewards points.

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

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Post by outime »

AdamN wrote: post #99
yosito wrote: post #67

I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…

Do you recommend Kiwi/SkyScanner for their customer support (changing tickets, etc...) or are those just names you sometimes use? I also fly a few times a year and at this point I just want excellent customer service and don't worry about saving a few bucks but haven't found a travel agent that meets my needs. Chase Ultimate Rewards just kind of meh. I do know the value of booking directly with the airline but someti…

Not OP but Skyscanner just aggregates different sellers and they don’t deal with tickets themselves. It ultimately depends on the seller you choose to buy the ticket from. In my experience as an European, even the crappiest ones were able to help but then if the difference is small it’s better to buy from the company operating the flight as you can then manage the flight stuff from their website instead.

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

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Post by madsbuch »

yanellena wrote: post #101
madsbuch wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that doesn't involve reducing fossil emissions. You can fly an airplane on non-fossil fuels. As the original commenter also said: He'd rather focus on earning money than saving a bit. Maybe that opinion translates to the climate debate? Maybe he wants to produce large amounts of energy with limited externalities instead of saving a bit.

>You can fly an airplane on non-fossil fuels. Not at the scale of commercial airlines though and certainly not (yet) as cheaply.

Indifferent to how practical you might think it is, one can still hold the view that it is more feasible to combat climate change that way.

Also, it is interesting to see, that you think it is more practical to eliminate air travel, than to employ new techniques to allow air travel while being climate neutral.

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

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Post by AdamN »

textread wrote: post #89

Somewhat related: Over the counter medicine is significantly cheaper to buy from Thailand, Indonesia and India [1]. Medicines in the US cost 50 times their cost in Thailand. [1] https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/imgsize-23456,msid-72197131,...

Indian pharmaceuticals are not well regulated and if you can afford it, it's better to look for products from other countries with stronger oversight.
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