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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 kleene_op »

hiq wrote: post #83
kleene_op wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just looked at the prices for the cheapest ticket next month from France to Japan, first from the airfrance french website and then from their japanese one. Cheapest ones in France are around 700-800€ when japanese ones are around 41,000¥ (~300€). This is crazy.

Are you sure it's not because the prices on the Japanese website doesn't include taxes and surchages? Japanese website: > All amounts are in JPY. Taxes and surcharges are excluded. French website: > All amounts are in EUR. Taxes, surcharges and booking fee are included.

Ah. This might be just that.

Does including all taxes amount to the same prices?

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Post by yosito »

okintheory wrote: post #204
Gud wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is a very myopic view. Perhaps OP has a specialist expertise making the travel absolutely necessary? Focus on improving, not limiting. Invest in battery technology, throw billions at it and we will have carbon free air travel

Batteries are not really considered at realistic option for airplanes, AFAIK. The best hope is that they can use synthetic fuel, at a cost of, say, x7 the current price. Regulation could definitely help make that happen -- and those who fly a lot should have to pay for the real price of their transport.

> those who fly a lot should have to pay for the real price of their transport

Carbon offsets for a transatlantic flight cost about $15-30. Challenge accepted.

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Post by muststopmyths »

qrohlf wrote: post #264
robbiet480 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chase (and AmEx) travel sucks to deal with if you have an issue with your flight. Much better to book direct so you can deal with the airlines directly even at the cost of losing 3x. Same deal with points, much better spent by transferring out to an airline or their partner vs using them for 1cpp on one of the cards OTAs.

The funny (unfortunate) thing is that this used to be the opposite - years ago, Chase's in-house travel service was as close as you'd get to a white glove phone support experience in this day and age. Then they outsourced it to Expedia, and the hold times went up and the efficiency and sanity of the whole process of dealing with any minor adjustment to your flight or travel plans degraded precipitously. It seems like…

For hotels they still outsource to Expedia and the service is abysmal if you have any problems.

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Post by tleb_ »

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

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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?

Work document privacy for NDA stuff and capability of doing meetings?

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Post by air7 »

johnwalkr wrote: post #270

I have one hotel hack, that works especially well for conferences when rooms are almost fully booked and prices are high. Book a hotel room with no charge for cancellation. Then, the day before arriving (or even the day of arriving if you're still able to cancel), check for rooms again. There's often nicer rooms that become available at the last minute due to others cancelling, at a lower price.

or if you're adventurous, cancel your own room and rebook it immediately...

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Post by tayo42 »

eadmund wrote: post #277
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…

> travel carry-on luggage only That is impossible if one wishes to carry a pocketknife or handgun at one’s destination. The latter is fairly uncommon, but the former is very common, right? Not to mention if one is bringing back a bottles of beer, wine or spirits.

ive traveled a bit and never felt the need to bring a knife...

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Post by tayo42 »

choeger wrote: post #16

Absolutely. I had a 25% discount offer for the same flight when booking through the American site vs. the European one. Unfortunately, they also asked for an invoice address in the states. So I opted out of that airline altogether. Just wait for the day when airlines buy hotel booking data and increase your price because you already booked a non-refundable room. Or they look into your messaging service or social netw…

last second trips are already expensive, why would they need to go through your private messages?

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

eloisant wrote: post #214
abliefern wrote: post #164

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> So you shouldn't feel bad for your occasional air travel. I don't understand the implied ethical rule behind this mentality. CO2 emissions are always a problem and to be avoided. What am I missing?

CO2 emissions are going to happen, we need to reduce them in a meaningful way. We do that by looking at the breakdown of emissions. The biggest sector is enery use in the industry (24%), next is buildings, mostly heating (17.5), then transport (16%). Most of the transport emissions is road transport (cars and trucks) and air travel is only 2% of the overall emissions. https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector An…

The biggest change we can make to reduce air emissions is replacing short flights with high-speed rail. There are 400 flights a day between DC and NYC. It should be zero.

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Post by grecy »

The effect of this (and the example given in the top SO answer) is significantly magnified when flying to and from Undeveloped countries.

When I was in Africa I flew out of, and then back into Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Egypt.

Booking the tickets to do so while sitting in those countries was up to half the price of booking it from the Developed country I was flying into.

I was just using kayak.com in Incognito and the price differences were staggering.

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Post by mbrameld »

eadmund wrote: post #277
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…

> travel carry-on luggage only That is impossible if one wishes to carry a pocketknife or handgun at one’s destination. The latter is fairly uncommon, but the former is very common, right? Not to mention if one is bringing back a bottles of beer, wine or spirits.

I guess if you really need a knife you can pick up a utility knife at your destination for a few dollars.
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