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I've just returned from a two-month trip to Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand and used a similar "trick" to book my travel within those countries. It was always cheaper to pay in the local currencies.
I've just returned from a two-month trip to Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand and used a similar "trick" to book my travel within those countries. It was always cheaper to pay in the local currencies.
FWIW if you goto the original article (Use a Fake Location to Get Cheaper International Tickets), in the comments it is stated that many of these fares are restricted to citizens of the respective country (Columbia, Argentina, etc), and several of these flag carriers check passports when checking in.
I've just returned from a two-month trip to Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand and used a similar "trick" to book my travel within those countries. It was always cheaper to pay in the local currencies.
In China it is cheaper to use the Chinese language version rather than the English language version of local websites even when one is actually located in China.
There was a currency conversion mistake on United's web site a few weeks back where you could get a ticket for about 1/10 of the usual price if you lived in Denmark and selected the krone as the payment currency. United refused to honor these fares even though they'll usually honor mistake fares without complaint because they said that the tickets had been purchased fraudulently and the DOT was okay with that even though they also usually encourage airlines to honor mistake fares.
Not quite my idea of honesty.Sorry but I just wouldn't do it plus if one gets caught it can create a heck of a mess.
Are you referring specifically to the article or my details? If the latter, then tell me what's dishonest about paying for fares in a country's local currency?
Are you referring specifically to the article or my details? If the latter, then tell me what's dishonest about paying for fares in a country's local currency?
Some people think it would be "dishonest" to figure out a way to get two Sham-Wows for only one shipping and handling cost.
Not quite my idea of honesty.Sorry but I just wouldn't do it plus if one gets caught it can create a heck of a mess.
I'm OK with it as long as I'm not breaking any laws, etc. The way I see it, people should be free to use any cheaper method of booking, etc. that is publicly available. This reminds me of the the recent effort by the airline industry to sue a young man who founded a website that helps flyers find cheaper flights via "hidden city" connections (for those readers who are unfamiliar with the practice, this is when you buy a ticket to Chicago with a layover in NY with no intention of actually going all the way to Chicago . . . this ticket may very well be significantly cheaper than flying directly to NY). Airline sues man for founding a cheap flights website The airlines are going to lose that case (as they should) as all the man is doing is publishing publicly available information (he's not hacking into any system, etc.). There's no issue with honesty here (you ultimately bought a ticket and are free to use that ticket as you wish, including getting off at the connecting city if you want . . . the airline cannot command you to go all the way to your "final destination").
In China it is cheaper to use the Chinese language version rather than the English language version of local websites even when one is actually located in China.
It's actually cheaper for Chinese citizens as I recall, I think it's a government mandate. But that's all easily verifiable by the airlines and Chinese big brother.
I'm OK with it as long as I'm not breaking any laws, etc. The way I see it, people should be free to use any cheaper method of booking, etc. that is publicly available. This reminds me of the the recent effort by the airline industry to sue a young man who founded a website that helps flyers find cheaper flights via "hidden city" connections (for those readers who are unfamiliar with the practice, this is when you buy a ticket to Chicago with a layover in NY with no intention of actually going all the way to Chicago . . . this ticket may very well be significantly cheaper than flying directly to NY). Airline sues man for founding a cheap flights website The airlines are going to lose that case (as they should) as all the man is doing is publishing publicly available information (he's not hacking into any system, etc.). There's no issue with honesty here (you ultimately bought a ticket and are free to use that ticket as you wish, including getting off at the connecting city if you want . . . the airline cannot command you to go all the way to your "final destination").
Not a lot of detail with that link but Airlines have a simple method to handling events were people drop of the last leg - they simply cancel their remaining flights, including your return flight. If it's a round trip ticket you are screwed....so the method only works for one-way travel...and 2 one-way tickets will usually be more expensive then a round trip ticket, so, it's eventually a self-defeating strategy in most cases.
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