Hey all. This is just a general question
I’ve heard that some plane ticket websites show you different prices, depending on which country you are searching from. First of all is that correct?
Second if someone has used this way, which country have you noticed to have the cheapest prices?
EDIT: FYI changing the language of the website helped a bit
Personally for the few times Ive booked using a VPN or incognito mode, I got the EXACT same price. But that’s just my experience.
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In college, my marketing professor did a real-time experiment showing us how airline website prices are controlled by the number of clicks. As a class, we went to the same airline, selected the same flight destination and time. None of us checked out and you could visually see the price jump. This was about 10 years ago and I don’t know if the technology has changed. If I was still in class doing the VPN thing would be a fun experiment.
vpns, deleting cookies, etc used to all occasionally work to save a few bucks on a flight but that hasn’t been the case for years now
Doesn’t work. VPN only might help if the OTAs proposed specific to that country have some special fare or something like that. But you can just change the country on the website.
Incognito: 100% doesn’t work as your activity is not tracked to adjust the price
Ive tried it. Hasnt worked for me
It works sometimes on hotel prices when you directly book on their site and I have used it. It showed me price in local currency and even after conversion and charges it came out cheaper as compared to USD price. But yeah airlines have money and they most likely bridged this gap as they use smarter and robust algorithms.
Incognito mode and VPN (Portugal) and buy ticket monday afternoon + ideal time window for international flight 1.5 months before departure.
For Monday afternoon I saw this on Tiktok, tried few times and I was surprised. Now I always buy my tickets Monday afternoon.
It did work for me when booking the Eurotunnel a few times but never when buying American tickets.
But as soon as I changed the language to British the prices reverted so i had to work out using the language I was trying to booking from
The only time I really notice paying significantly less is when booking tickets in South America (Chile, Argentina, Peru). Set the website to the country in question and the language to Spanish. You don’t need a VPN. Tickets are several times cheaper than on the international site / English.
I simply clear cookies and turn off location. Works a good portion of the time.
Sometimes works, or used to at least but most likely it’s all the same.
I searched for plane tickets brussel to bangkok on 14/07/23 in Turkey on a laptop when i was on a holiday.
3 days later i was back in Belgium i searched up the same flight on mobile phone , same dates , same flight hours but prices were 240€ more expensive.
If you pay with the VPN on the bank will usually block your card because someone in a foreign country just used it according to their records. Iv had this happen a bunch of times from just forgetting to switch my VPN off. Would not reccomend
No relation at all. Plane tickets are an open market price deregulated.the price for same seat same destination on same airline depends varies on time, day, date, season, demand, airline consolidation, travel agent, website, etc. …
Remember that you have to pay in that currency for that price, and then you’ll get slapped with a currency conversion fee and whatever the spot rate is.
Interested if anyone has had experience of booking airIndia tickets? Are they cheaper to buy in India than from Australia for instance?
Incognito mode Definitely helped me in June 2023 to book an apartment in Milan via booking.com. It came to -30$. The website said that booking.com is paying for the first booking, granted I did not login through incognito mode at first.
Then, at checkout I did log in and the discount did not disappear.
VPN did nothing, tho.
Same. I just used our companys overseas server and “exclusive” travel app with “special corporate” rates.
It was more expensive lol.