Using a VPN to get cheaper flights
 

It's that time of year again and I decided to see whether a bit of virtual shopping around using my VPN could get me a cheaper deal and despite the weaker value of GBP since the whole BRExit decision (which was of course entirely my fault), I managed to get an even cheaper deal than ever with Edinburgh -> Abu Dhabi (on Etihad)-> Kuala Lumpur (on Etihad) -> Penang (on Silk Air) OUTWARD in November and RETURN in March.

All for £510, which is substantially down on the price last year which was about £640 or so for the same route.

I only used the Skyscanners website.

One thing I did this year was go through a VPN and cleared my cookies between times, I noticed that buying the ticket from the UK was most expensive at around £581 for that specific route (there were cheaper ones through Southern China, but at 30-hours plus these were excessive)

Changing the VPN to the Netherlands, but choosing same criteria and same route and airlines came up with a price of £586, whereas changing the VPN to Russia came up with a price of £510

The only thing changing here is which country I am booking from, the route, airlines and the actual flights selected all remain the same.

Since my multi-country VPN (Expat Shield) costs me only RM99 for a year (about £19 GBP), it has effectively paid for itself just using it to purchase this ticket.

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Very interesting. I have found the same thing with car hire in the UK, the price you get quoted depends on where you appear to be from.

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So when you ring up you put on a Brummie accent ? :blink:

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You didn't try to put your VPN to Malaysia or Nigeria (the country of choice for email spammers)?

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Very interesting topic. I've often wondered if this would work, but had never tried it myself. Although I did once buy some credits on a well known dating app by pretending to be in Colombia :)

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Last year I had an ibVPN subscription and heard about airline companies promoting different prices. I was hunting a good deal from London but every time I had checked the price increased. I had cleared the cookies and used the VPN and got a better price.

Next time I tried it did not work. I don't know if the company had updated their prices or it was because I changed my IP.

PS: ibVPN has 6 hours free trial (https://www.ibvpn.com/billing/cart.p...tpl=ibvpn-v3-6) so basically you can check the prices at no cost.