Buying plane tickets "from the other end"
Upvote:2
It's mostly fiction. It's hard to find a specific example where this would make a significant difference.
For example Bergen <-> Perth in mid February was about $1100 and Perth <-> Bergen was about the same with one decent option being about $40 cheaper.
There is always variability of flight pricing, so it's hard to do an Apples to Apples comparison. Prices depend a lot on season, day of the week, special events at destination or departure, convenience of the connections, supply and demand, competition and many more.
"Buying outside the country" doesn't matter much either. First you need to define what that actually is. Which country is the one you buy in ?
- Country of Departure airport: you can't change that unless you change your travel plans
- Country of residence: the airlines don't even ask about this
- Country of citizenship(s): only important in terms of visa and entry rules
- IP address of the computer you book from: can easily be fudged with a VPN
- Billing address of your credit card: may affect fees, but that depends often on the card
- Currency used for payment: may affect fees and is subject to fluctuation
Typically none of these makes much of a difference.
More post
- 📝 transferring between terminals in Bole International airport (Addis Ababa)
- 📝 If one must retrieve one's checked bag during a layover, is that indicated on the checked bag's tags/stickers?
- 📝 Can Schengen visa month be changed?
- 📝 Travel changes with an Iranian visa
- 📝 "EQP" on air ticket confirmation via a travel agency
- 📝 Airline asking for power of attourney before paying compensation
- 📝 Traveling to China transfer in Hong Kong. Do I need a HK transit visa?
- 📝 How to change some details on the passport application AFTER it got submitted?
- 📝 Expired Permesso di Soggiorno but valid student visa
- 📝 Inverted Speed Limit sign in South Korea
- 📝 Can I bring these OTC medicines to India from the UK via Doha?
- 📝 In China airports, is passport needed on ticket?
- 📝 Can you share frequent flyer status with people in your travel group?
- 📝 Is this November is a good time to go to Spiti Valley, Himachal India?
- 📝 Where was this picture of a seaside road taken?
- 📝 Do I need a transit visa in Singapore if I have a valid B1/B2 visa
- 📝 How to find jobs on a working holiday in Québec (Montréal) with mediocre French skills
- 📝 Emergency Visa to US for accompanying son (for his intern)
- 📝 Requirements to drive to Mexico from USA
- 📝 What time of year is the cheapest to travel to Canada from Europe?
- 📝 Ducal Palace Museum complex at Mantua: is it possible to visit it in the morning and come back in the afternoon for a visit to Corte Vecchia?
- 📝 Are there limited term identification cards in the UK?
- 📝 Visa-free visit and re-entry to the UK
- 📝 Which side of Lyria train to sit on from Paris to Geneva?
- 📝 Visit visa and work visa
- 📝 Applying for H1B.. Can also apply for Schengen Business Visa for Germany when H1B is on processing?
- 📝 Transfer times in Stuttgart airpot
- 📝 Is there a web-application that provides the ability for interested people on the ground to "stalk" a flight?
- 📝 Changing domestic itinerary on a Spain Schengen visa
- 📝 As a tourist in Canada: buy, borrow or rent a car?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Buying plane tickets "from the other end"
- 📝 Buying plane tickets offline in Nepal
- 📝 Should I wait until Black Friday for buying my plane tickets for December
- 📝 What is the advantage(s) to buying tickets beforehand vs at the station for rail travel in Europe?
- 📝 Buying the cheap return day cruise tickets (from Stockholm to Tallinn) and not taking the return leg of the journey
- 📝 Buying tickets and finding the train station at the Copenhagen airport
- 📝 Can I buy two tickets for different passports, register for them, go to the transit zone, cancel one and fly to the other
- 📝 Exchanging TGV tickets in a station other than the departure station
- 📝 Is there any advantage in buying tickets in advance for the train in Moroccos?
- 📝 Any way to find out how crowded a plane will be ? (before buying the ticket)
- 📝 Italy's SITA Bus tickets (Campania Region) buying process and questions
- 📝 Should I pre-book train tickets in Switzerland with the Swiss travel pass?
- 📝 I am currently sitting in a plane on the runway that has been delayed for three hours. Do I get free food?
- 📝 What will happen if a refugee boarded a plane, but that plane is diverted to the place where he is persecuted?
- 📝 Can you book multiple seats in the same flight for the same passenger in separate tickets and not show up for one ticket?
- 📝 When booking a flight when the clock is set back by one hour due to the daylight saving time, how can I know when the plane is scheduled to depart?
- 📝 Can I estimate the real or final price of a plane trip?
- 📝 What is the cheapest way for intercity travel from Belgium (Brussels) to other countries and nearby?
- 📝 What are the various types of tickets for Empire State Building?
- 📝 Can I buy a plane ticket from A-B-C but get on the plane at B?
- 📝 Buying a phone in the US
- 📝 Is there an online map or other resource that lists windmills in the Netherlands?
- 📝 Parents names in their passport are not matching the names in my passport. do I need to specify 2 names in B2 VISA application and other documents?
- 📝 History on the plane wreck in Solheimasandur as a tourist attraction?
- 📝 Why are plane tickets more expensive if they don't include a weekend?
- 📝 Mobile phones must be turned off while the plane is being refueled?
- 📝 Why aren't micro Swiss Army multitools allowed on the plane but small scissors are allowed?
- 📝 Should I purchase train tickets between Milan Malpensa Airport and Florence on the day or book them in advance?
- 📝 Buying and insuring a car in the US for a roadtrip
- 📝 Are there countries other than the USA where you are required to collect your luggage even in transit?