How to Beat High Airfares
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How to Beat High Airfares
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#2Sigh. Is there any reliable way to read nytimes articles without having an account, nowadays?
I know you can usually do it by googling for a string of text from the article body, but without an extract from the article body there's no way to do that from here.
And I'm assuming bugmenot no longer works in the post-paywall world, right?
edit: Never mind, I found it by googling "how to beat high airfares" (which I thought wouldn't work). Turns out it's a Nate Silver article and quite interesting. The trick is that sometimes you can get to a hub airport more cheaply by booking a flight to some destination on the other side of the hub and then just getting off the plane... but of course the more people start using this trick (after it's published in the New York Times) the less useful it will be.
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#3why "free market competition" sounds awkward as a mean to beat high airfares?
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#4Book your itinerary as a set of two one-way flights, rather than as a round trip.
Every time I have looked, a single one-way is more expensive than a round-trip between the same locations. Maybe I've just been 'lucky'.
Edit: no, I'm just ignorant. Turns out domestic one-ways are more proportionally priced versus round-trips.
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#5This is unethical, basically he calls for jumping off of flights at layovers, which violates the terms of the ticket. There's even a security issue for the airlines, because they need to check if your bags are flying unaccompanied.
Ironic that the NYT cracks down on people evading its paywall but is selling content on doing the same for air travel.
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#6Book your itinerary as a set of two one-way flights, rather than as a round trip. Every time I have looked, a single one-way is more expensive than a round-trip between the same locations. Maybe I've just been 'lucky'. Edit: no, I'm just ignorant. Turns out domestic one-ways are more proportionally priced versus round-trips.
this is usually the case especially for international flights. You always end up trading flexibility for price.
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#7Book your itinerary as a set of two one-way flights, rather than as a round trip. Every time I have looked, a single one-way is more expensive than a round-trip between the same locations. Maybe I've just been 'lucky'. Edit: no, I'm just ignorant. Turns out domestic one-ways are more proportionally priced versus round-trips.
this is usually the case especially for international flights. You always end up trading flexibility for price.
But it's usually not the case for domestic US flights, which is what the article is about.
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#8A couple days a found a round-trip flight from Montreal to Paris with a layover in New Jersey for $762. I tried to book the exact some flight, but starting in New Jersey, and it was over $1,400. This sort of this is crazy. Is anyone really surprised that airlines keep going bankrupt?
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#9This is unethical, basically he calls for jumping off of flights at layovers, which violates the terms of the ticket. There's even a security issue for the airlines, because they need to check if your bags are flying unaccompanied. Ironic that the NYT cracks down on people evading its paywall but is selling content on doing the same for air travel.
Unethical?
Hardly. It's just against their specific rules (which only exist so they can gouge you on certain fares).
Is it ethical for airlines to charge you more for A->B than a flight going from A->B->C?
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#10This is unethical, basically he calls for jumping off of flights at layovers, which violates the terms of the ticket. There's even a security issue for the airlines, because they need to check if your bags are flying unaccompanied. Ironic that the NYT cracks down on people evading its paywall but is selling content on doing the same for air travel.
I think hypocritical is the word you were looking for, rather than "ironic".