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Post by nexus7556 »

di456 wrote: post #278

I've found that some international flights with a regional domestic connection after landing in the new country are often several $100's cheaper to book one itinerary with the international segment, then a separate itinerary for the regional domestic connection.

I've actually seen the opposite.

* I was recently looking at GVA-EWR-BTV vs just GVA-EWR it was several hundred dollars less to go to BTV.

* I was in Paris three weeks ago, looking at return flights CDG-SFO. It was several hundred dollars cheaper to book FRA-CDG-SFO or GVA-CDG-SFO than CDG-SFO.

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Post by dom96 »

An extreme example of this which applies not just to tickets but a full holiday package is Disney World. If you're based out of the UK you can get a very good 14 day package which includes Disney World tickets, hotel and flights for a significant discount over the US/EU. In theory it should be possible to have someone outside the UK to buy these packages but I haven't tested it.

I do actually track the prices and have built a site that exposes the data[1]. I found a couple of other hacks that are interesting (for example, you can save multiple thousands of £ by just splitting your stay, you'll need to move to a different hotel room but that might be worth it for many).

1 - https://mousetrack.co.uk/

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Post by waldothedog »

medstrom wrote: post #228
pimterry wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 e…

What's the advantage of a coworking space over a library?

I like both, but in my experience things like snacks, drinks, whiteboarding, and video calls are easier to pull off in a coworking space. Many times in libraries these are difficult, or at least higher friction

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Post by flemhans »

andbeyond wrote: post #235

It gets worse in our post-covid age. All companies are now openly screwing us over with no repercussions. Go on a website, be it legit airline site or reputable agency. Book, pay for the flight. After payment, they inform you that the trip you booked (through their website) simply does not exist. Your only choice is to ask for a refund that will take 28 days. Easy, cheap cashflow. Happened to me 3 times this year, Qa…

I wish there was a site would just charge the fare price +15% and do away with all the dark patterns and scams.

You select the flight and enter your name and pay.

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Post by ljf »

medstrom wrote: post #228
pimterry wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 e…

What's the advantage of a coworking space over a library?

Not the op - but I usually feel happier leaving my laptop and stuff when i go grab a coffee/lunch/toilet break in a co-working space, over a public library.

I LOVE public libraries, but not always set up for working comfortably, especially if I need to take a call, or want to do some whiteboarding.

And lastly, paying for something sometimes makes my appreciate it more - I've paid for this space so I WILL WORK.

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Post by allendoerfer »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #222
nazgul17 wrote: post #216

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To my children, who will labour to sustain you, too, in your late life.

I don't owe having children to your children, or to you. You can have children if you want, but I'm not requiring that of you. If your children take care of me late in life, it's because they're exchanging their work for money. And the reason they're obligated to exchange their work for money is because that's the economic system into which their parents decided to bring them.

You do not owe anything to anyone here. You just cannot construct a moral high ground based on your childlessness.

It is not moral to not have children. Paraphrasing Kant: An action is moral, if the state improves when everyone does it.

You cannot recommend everyone to not have children, since you depend on them. So why bring it up as an argument in a thread about climate change in the first place?

The argument is hypocritical. It just does not make much sense.

Do you see it as an optimization problem, where others have exactly enough children to care for you at old age, but so few that the climate suffers as little as possible? If so, you are still relying on the children and do not gain any more imaginary rights to pollute than those parents.

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Post by sva_ »

medstrom wrote: post #86
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…

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.

The booking time as well. Tuesday morning is usually best, Friday night worst from my experience.

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Post by leviathant »

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?

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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Post by yosito »

severino wrote: post #259
yosito wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get what you're saying about limiting air travel, but let's look at the bigger picture. Commercial flights make up around 2% of global carbon emissions, so forcing people like me not to travel is not going to make a significant dent in climate change. Focusing on industries and companies that are responsible for the bulk of emissions might be a better way to go. Rather than trying to control individuals, we need to…

Absolutely, I agree. And while we were talking about commercial flights, it's true that it's only a small part of the problem. But my message was that I think there is no point in trying to cut down your emissions individually while no one else does. So I think it's either we put limits (both for individuals but also and specially for industries and corps) or we forget about it and just keep having fun until we no lo…

I don't think there's a lot of value in putting limits on individuals. That's not an effective way to change the problem at scale. But FWIW, the average American can an annual carbon footprint of 16-17 metric tons of CO2. Here's some back of the napkin math estimating my annual carbon footprint:

750 kg (home energy) + 50 kg (public transportation) + 3,000 kg (flights) + 2,000 kg (diet) + 500 kg (shopping and waste) = 6.3 metric tons of CO2 per year, not bad for someone from a developed country.

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Post by sva_ »

yosito wrote: post #217
AdamN wrote: post #99

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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…

Honestly, I've given up on expecting any kind of customer support from any travel agent at all, even buying tickets directly from the airlines. Customer service in 2023 is a shitshow.

Protip: if customer service phone lines are busy due to some stuff going on, call the English line of some smaller country.
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