I saw an advertisement purporting to show the difference in airline fare between an American IP and a UK IP. They claimed that the best way to use their VPN service was to shop the various prices using foreign IPs, then clear cache as to not appear as a returning browser and checking the prices from other foreign IPs, before determining which country’s IP to purchase from. This sounds like it was plausible once upon a time, but I don’t believe this would be the standard practice of airlines today…or is it?
They do. At least LATAM does.
Early this year, got a ticket from BER-SCL around 300 eur cheaper paying on Latam Chile (Chilean peso) instead of Latam Deutschland (Euro).
It also depends on the conversion rate, at that point, EUR to CLP FX was quite good, so it was even better.
Air Canada was playing some games with me. I posted about it on reddit and people were calling me a liar.
Yes definitely, you can check this yourself by looking at a flight’s price and change the location from you VPN. Clear cache and reload the page. The price will almost certainly be different
Slightly off topic but Microsoft do it with xbox games. You can get a digital copy of the same game for a lot less money in other countries using a vpn.
I would assume the browser and device type you’re using are also figured in, so prep those user agent switchers as well.
Most SA airlines do. But when I tried to book, my price reverted to the US price once I provided my citizenship.
Yeah, but a copy of a digital video game is way different than a frickin plane you know
Point I was trying to get across is yes, most things you can get cheaper using a vpn including flights…
But that makes no sense, when it is a digital product, like Spotify, or games, the cost of operation is very low, so they can offer for less, but a plane, it is a physical thing, that costs a lot, there is no point, they are different types of things
Ok… You must be right