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The word hack becomes cheaper and cheaper each day.
I think the lifehack movement started that train of thought. I'm not really sure.
I've been doing this for years. After I noticed most places are cheap to get to but flights are expensive back. I noticed the same business model was in place from the other direction. So just fake the country of origin and you get cheap to and back. The other one is clear your cookies before booking. Places create fake demand by disappearing the cheap flights on you if you shopping around. If you clear your cookies…
So you book two one-way tickets? AFAICT, that's usually not cheaper.
"BTW, I use the VPN to mask my internet traffic… sorry NSA" As if using a VPN made you NSA-proof. Every time I see phrases like this I force myself not to think the person is a fool but it's hard. People need to realize that ensuring security and privacy isn't fixed by installing just some tool and be done with it. Worse, they will do this and trust they are immune (and then the damage will be worse).
I'm aware it is not NSA proof.
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Well, for one thing, you've taken your domestic internet traffic -- which has legal protections against many types of NSA intrusion -- and traded it for foreign traffic which has virtually no protection.
ok so use a vpn located in america. Boom.
I've been doing this for years. After I noticed most places are cheap to get to but flights are expensive back. I noticed the same business model was in place from the other direction. So just fake the country of origin and you get cheap to and back. The other one is clear your cookies before booking. Places create fake demand by disappearing the cheap flights on you if you shopping around. If you clear your cookies…
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That is incorrect and unfortunate that it left the wrong impression in user's minds. Orbitz did not price up hotels based on OS, they chose to change the list of options presented to users based on OS. This is no different than what we simply call "personalization". If a user found the Wynn on a Mac or a PC, they were the same exact price, all that was different was what position that hotel was in in the default sort…
That's an awful fine distinction there.
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I doubt a search a day would even show on the radar
Wouldn't be a very successful startup then anyway would it?
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B6 is the IATA designator for JetBlue. People who travel heavily, or otherwise spend a lot of time talking about airlines, often use these to refer to airlines rather than writing out the full names over and over. IATA designators for commonly-discussed US-based airlines: * AirTrain: FL * Alaska: AS * Allegiant: G4 * American: AA * Delta: DL * Frontier: F9 * Hawaiian: HA * JetBlue: B6 * Southwest: WN * Spirit: NK * S…
Yeah, definitely appropriate abbreviation for the airplane nuts at Hacker News. It's an interesting TIL, but for future reference, @WildUtah, I'd wager less than 1% of the population knows anything about airline designations.
Airline codes aren't that obscure...
No. I work for an OTA (not Kayak). First of all airlines file their fare rules and OTAs don't change the prices, and generally airlines pay around $10 to us to book a RT fare so there is little room to discount. Kayak is a meta which means all they do is present prices they are given from their partners (either via a feed or scrape) and then send them to the partner who shares the fee. Southwest (as others have menti…
Also note that airlines can and do choose to show more flight options on their own sites that they deny to any OTA. The actual fares are all by rule and aren't different.
eg, Find a flight you like on AA? Try and book it on QF or BA and the price might be substantially different, even though you end up sitting on exactly the same plane.