Years ago I bought an RTW ticket from One World, where the pricing varied based on what country your flights started in. I think the lowest price I found was from Morocco, and the USA was among the highest - something like $3000 vs $5000.
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?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah that's my experience too - the airline itself is ideal because they can also help with upgrades, rebooking more easily without the encumbrance of a different vendor. Flying is still such a pita.
Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
#123I travel to my home country once a year to visit family, but have it set up so that my origin for the round trip is the home country (ie XYZ-SFO-XYZ rather than SFO-XYZ-SFO). The ticket is generally half the cost, which adds up when you're traveling with family. I can only do this because I consistently travel to that same place every year, otherwise I wouldn't be able to swap the origin. It also requires you knowing…
I used to do the same about 15 years ago. I was living in DC area but was traveling to Bay Area every week (mon to fri) for work. I always booked fare in reverse with Friday evening departure (from sfo) and Monday morning ( from DCA) return. A Saturday night “stay” apparently made it a leisure fare which was way cheaper than Monday to Friday fare which was way more expensive. (Like 4x more). [ this was United Airline…
Still the case long haul
Just looked up economy London-Singapore return, Sunday-Sunday in economy on BA Aug 7 to Aug 13
and there's space in the 'M' bucket with fare MHNC80S7 which is £510 each eay (plus fees and taxes)
TRAVEL FROM LAST INTERNATIONAL STOPOVER MUST COMMENCE NO
EARLIER THAN THE FIRST SUN AFTER DEPARTURE OF THE FIRST
INTERNATIONAL SECTOR.
That means the extra day in Singapore saves you £1200. (the taxes and fees are the same regardless)
If you travel a lot - especially flexibly - then it is sometimes worth a subscription to expertflyer, which if far faster at seeing rules and availability than traipsing through ITA Matrix.
Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
#124I'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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This is a problem for law, not individuals, to solve.
Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
#125Earlier 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're talking about finding a different way to reduce emissions, it is still reducing emissions.
Synthetic fuels do not reduce emissions. The emissions are just not from fossil fuels.
Or am I missing something?
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#126I'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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now think about how often a pilot flies
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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).
> Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established.
Yes, and they reduce CO2 emissions.
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#128I'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…
Another hack is timing. Often I've taken a day off on either Friday or Monday when I'm travelling over the weekend -- the difference in cost can be as much as a day's wage.
This is a lovely benefit of remote working for me - any time I travel, I can shift the days around to significantly save on flight costs, but without losing the day's wage. I can just work from wherever I am without taking any time off.
Usually saves at least €100 each way, every time I travel, and occasionally much more. And as a bonus, it's quite nice to spend a day working from a coworking space in a random city elsewhere and see a little of the local working lifestyle.
A coworking space for a single day in a European city is normally €20 or so, but many places offer free 1 day trials too, and there's also 'work from anywhere' portable coworking subscriptions and 'use any of our locations' benefits from multi-city coworking chains, if you/your company already pay for coworking elsewhere.
Re: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
#129Earlier 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.
At what cost to others? The climate morality debate is complicated because it's all statistical. "Drown Bangladesh and Florida" is obviously a wrong outcome, but there's no one individual wrong action that leads there. You could come up with an approximation like "each gallon of jet fuel consumed raises the sea level by one femtometre"; each action is individually trivial, but combined they are not trivial.
> At what cost to others? ...
I think nobody disagrees. Your entire comment is rhetoric handcuffing. Nobody proposed to let "Bangladesh and Florida drown".
We are discussing ways to avoid current path of climate change which can involve other means than reducing mobility.
Unfortunately a lot of people are set on an extremely narrow path, which is a moral issue. How are you going to explain to third world countries that you do not think they have the right to prosper like the US did?
In the end, it is morally wrong to be single minded on the solution to the issues. We need to consider other means. Let the means compete and pick the best way.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a plethora of alternatives. Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. bio-fuels is another alternative (though it might not scale).
> Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. Yes, and they reduce CO2 emissions.
How?
A kg of fuel should have roughly the same CO2 emission regardless of how it is produced?
The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.