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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 robbiet480 »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #320
robbiet480 wrote: post #113

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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.

Can one transfer the points immediately before booking or is that process too slow. This way one could take adventange of fact that reward points do not expire.

Depends on the partner you are transferring to. Some are instant, like Delta, Southwest and United. Some can take a few business days like ANA. Always Google before transferring to determine actual average transfer time and never prospectively transfer points, always transfer with something in mind. Points could be devalued at any time without warning or expire.

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Post by throwawaylinux »

lwhi wrote: post #273
throwawaylinux wrote: post #191

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> Industry provides valuable products for billions of people. Yes, airplanes and jet fuel for example. > Hundreds of reckless flights that could be zoom meetings benefit no one. Sounds like they were recreational. Or is happiness not permitted either? I'd better not drive 10 minutes down to the beach to walk my dog tomorrow in case the carbon police catch me, lol. For that matter I'll bet having a dog in the first pl…

A throwaway account for this type of comment doesn't exactly give your words much gravitas.

Good argument.

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

yosito wrote: post #219
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #107

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

Because the rewards points can only be redeemed for flights that are priced 3x as much as the kiwi flights. I've done the math many times, and it never comes out ahead. Just go for the flights with the cheapest price.

Not from what I have seen. Prices are the same. Perhaps it depends on what international flights one is after.

I do understand the strategy of just going after the cheapest flights and I know younger people who swear by it. But these are often the same people who will not pay annual fees for credits cards, so they have never tried these rewards programs.

Also, if a customer has accumulated a large quantity of points, then she may not want to use the points on the "cheapest" options. She might want to choose more expensive ones since she is using points.

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Post by eadmund »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #309
eadmund wrote: post #277

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> 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 can't imagine a place where both: 1) I require a pocketknife and a handgun immediately upon arrival, and 2) I'd also like to pick up some bottles of fine wine while I'm there. Sounds like a very interesting vacation, though.

> I require a pocketknife and a handgun immediately upon arrival

I carry a pocketknife every day.

I don’t carry a handgun, but there are plenty of states in the U.S. with CCW reciprocity; someone who carries in one and wishes to fly to another might quite reasonably wish to carry there as well.

‘Immediately’ is a loaded word. It would be weird to mail my hotel a pocketknife for a weekend trip.

> I'd also like to pick up some bottles of fine wine while I'm there.

There are a ton of microbreweries and distilleries in the U.S. whose products are not nationally distributed. I often like to bring things back from my travels. Wine’s not as regional, I think.

It’s an OR, of course, not an AND: some folks want to carry a pocketknife; others a handgun; others wish to fly with more than a few very small bottles of liquid.

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Post by stavros »

uw_rob wrote: post #229
xnx wrote: post #226

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This is an impressively thorough and considered response.

Not to accuse anyone, but it's written in the style of ChatGPT.

Yeah, that's what I thought of immediately as well. I think it was the first two paragraphs that did it.

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Post by Kailhus »

elif wrote: post #314

Absolutely. To fly direct from Atlanta to Tokyo is about $3000 round trip. To fly to Tokyo from Costa Rica round trip via Atlanta layover is about $1500. You don't even need a VPN to see the price difference. It's the same airlines, the same exact planes. It's priced by demand not by costs and it is absurd imo, especially from a climate perspective. Should I take a Costa Rica vacation I don't need just to save money?…

Indeed. And not if that layover is overnight and you ask to take your bags off Atlanta airport whilst you sleep at the hotel nearby, scrapping that ATL>Costa Rica leg the next day as no show. That’s another trick I haven’t seen mentioned around: the extra ‘dummy’ leg at the end sometimes make a huuuge difference.

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Post by jkepler »

haunter wrote: post #77

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/…

I really appreciate seat61.com when I need to book train travel. The site is full of info as to when and where to book to get the best price, as well as what level of service various trains in various countries provide.

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Post by throwawaylinux »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #140
WheatMillington wrote: post #91

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Don’t take CO2 behavior instruction from people who have children. I can fly international 365 days a year for decades. But my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have 0 carbon footprint because they’ll never exist. Conversely, eat bugs and recycle coke cans if you want, but that’s a fraction of a fraction of a drop in the bucket if you’ve had even one kid.

Then your genetic and cultural lines will be replaced in society by those that are more disposed to reproducing.

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Post by [deleted] »

the_third_wave wrote: post #9
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.

Could be taxes making up the difference, 20% sounds suspiciously close to the French V.A.T. rate of... 20% [1]. [1] https://www.vatupdate.com/2021/04/21/vat-rates-in-france/

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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 rhtgrg »

the_third_wave wrote: post #9
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.

Could be taxes making up the difference, 20% sounds suspiciously close to the French V.A.T. rate of... 20% [1]. [1] https://www.vatupdate.com/2021/04/21/vat-rates-in-france/

Perhaps, though I now recall that one of the options was free. I tried that one too, but I abandoned it first in favor of the others since the checkout and "payment" experience failed in strange and unpredictable ways with that one (the others at least showed me a 'sorry this is broken' style of message).
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