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Airline ticket prices have been highly individualized for at least a decade. I live a nomadic lifestyle and I'm often traveling with friends from various countr
by yosito 1y ago
Airline ticket prices have been highly individualized for at least a decade. I live a nomadic lifestyle and I'm often traveling with friends from various countries. We can sit next to each other in the same café and search for the same plane tickets on the same website at the same time, and get entirely different price offers. This is one of the reasons that I never buy plane tickets without using incognito mode or some sort of private browsing, but even doing that affects the price that you're offered.
- ListeningPie 1y agoI've also heard that depending on what country you're buying from the price changes, but using VPN I've never been able to replicate the results. Pricing based on individuals sounds illegal.
- mr_toad 1y ago> Pricing based on individuals sounds illegal. It happens in every car dealership. And in enterprise sales. And in some countries in nearly every market and store.
- account42 1y agoIt's definitely the case that a round trip going from A to B to A can have a very different price than a round trip going from B to A to B using the same routes.