Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Mar 2nd 2013, 11:51 pm
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
I wouldn't fly via Bangkok as the airport isn't bril. Try Cathy Pacific via HK too
Mar 2nd 2013, 11:54 pm
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Or fly into KUL (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) or SIN (Singapore) and then pick up an Emirates flight; might work out cheaper and then you may get your Dubai to Glasgow connection
The price rises are how the airline world works and the cheaper the ticket the less flexible it is
and those prices were all the Early Bird Sales to Europe which have to be booked & ticketted by early March
The price rises are how the airline world works and the cheaper the ticket the less flexible it is
and those prices were all the Early Bird Sales to Europe which have to be booked & ticketted by early March
Someone else has been posting on my account 
Wonder who that was 
have your kids hacked your account.
Mar 3rd 2013, 5:44 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Try looking on Expedia as well. I was looking at multicity flights from Perth to Prague then Budapest to Perth. Looking at the emirates website the price is - get this - $13000! Yes, $13000. On Expedia, the exact same flights were $2130. Singapore was a little better at only $8700 on their website and $2400 through Expedia. Think I'll be speaking to my travel agent as well to see what he can find.
Mar 3rd 2013, 6:12 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Well I guess it can have some merit. Airlines excel at bad IT...that's why Dorothy was seeing those fares - they weren't the cheapest available, just what the website came up with - phoning Emirates or Singapore Airlines probably would've got a better result. Clearly Zuji etc are often able to do a better job with the available fare classes - perhaps a TA could do the same on an even smaller margin?
Mar 3rd 2013, 7:33 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
The price flying London>Oz should be the same as the price flying Oz>London, taking into account exchange rates and taxes. The costs are the same, everything it priced internationally, there is no justification for a difference (other than the airlines being allowed to get away with it).
Mar 3rd 2013, 9:25 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Well I guess it can have some merit. Airlines excel at bad IT...that's why Dorothy was seeing those fares - they weren't the cheapest available, just what the website came up with - phoning Emirates or Singapore Airlines probably would've got a better result. Clearly Zuji etc are often able to do a better job with the available fare classes - perhaps a TA could do the same on an even smaller margin?
If I can get the same price as what I can find online through my agent then why wouldn't I? It keeps someone in a job and I have the added benefit of someone to take care of issues should they arise.
Mar 3rd 2013, 10:27 pm
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Thanks for that.
Mar 4th 2013, 3:03 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
I found Qantas and Emirates similar in price, but Qantas (also Virgin Australia) don't seem to fly direct, they go to other Australian airports first. Thanks for your help guys, I'll have to keep researching. It is just so frustrating when found what I want and was a bit of a shock to see it change so drastically. I expected may fluctuate by maybe up to $200 in total but not that much. I've done 20 flights over the last 12 months, and not seen a change like that.
Mar 4th 2013, 3:08 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
The price flying London>Oz should be the same as the price flying Oz>London, taking into account exchange rates and taxes. The costs are the same, everything it priced internationally, there is no justification for a difference (other than the airlines being allowed to get away with it).
Mar 4th 2013, 3:50 am
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Re: Flights back to UK - Price jump 30% in one day
Disagree. If, for example, reverse airfares did roughly match at 2% of an average salary in each country and then the currency exchange nose dived in one of the countries they happened to fly to...why should they reduce the airfares in the country whose currency didn't collapse to 1% of average salary and leave them at 2% in the country that did collapse just because of exchange rate changes. Why should the collapse of one particular foreign currency make airfares super cheap in the economy that didn't have a currency collapse. Should every country flying into the UK suddenly reduce their airfares to super cheap when the pound dropped. And raise them when the Yen strengthened, and drop them again against the RMB and raise them again against....
Can't imagine the Ethiopians are going to be able to afford to pay the same price as the Brits would for the same trip. Therefore to avoid empty flights back to the UK the airlines would have to price the flights in accordance with what Ethiopians can afford.
Software companies do it all the time. Is iTunes going to charge the same price in the US as they would in India to download a tune ..... or better put are Apple going to reduce the US price to that of the Indian price. .... unlikely. Are Apple going to try and sell tunes in India - of course there are a billion of them.