I had a cheap air fare tip from one of my Customers yesterday

[mitch]

Apparantly, and one of our resident techys may be able to confirm or deny this, if you were to go on to Easy Jet's web site for instance and look for a cheap flight from say Birmingham to Mallorca and they quote you a price of £200 but you decide not to take it and shop around a bit whenever you go back the price will most certainly not go down but is very likely to go up and the reason for this is that the airlines web site has installed cookies into your temporary internet files so it knows who you are and can up the ante accordingly. I know you techys will say that you should empty your temporary internet files daily basis and defragment your joy stick or whatever it is you do.

The trick according to my Customer is to delete your temporary internet files before going back to a site and then they think your a new Customer and give you a good deal, this could of course be total tosh, but I'll be giving it a go.

 

[John Marwood]

not saying this is incorrect but most 'bucket' airlines sell their cheapest seats first and then the people who really 'need' to travel have to pay the expensive price for the final or remaining seats..Or at least thats how is it used to be in the not so distant when I was hopping around europe a lot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfte_fJ8ExM

 

[kyoto49]

I have also heard that if you need multiple seats it is better to price just one first, and then make sure when you query for the multiple seats, that the price is the same. Apparantly they quote a higher price for requesting more seats. Sometimes if you need lots of seats it si cheaper to break the booking down in to smaller numbers of seats.

Sounds a bit weird to me, but I have it on good authority that it's true.

 

[Goldilox]

I have also heard that if you need multiple seats it is better to price just one first, and then make sure when you query for the multiple seats, that the price is the same. Apparantly they quote a higher price for requesting more seats. Sometimes if you need lots of seats it si cheaper to break the booking down in to smaller numbers of seats.

Sounds a bit weird to me, but I have it on good authority that it's true.

That makes sense in that the pricing reacts to demand. The more people trying to book a particular flight the higher the price of seats will be. If you phone up and ask for twenty seats you're creating a spike in demand that will cause the price to rise.

 

[basil]

Bulls and Bears........

 

[mitch]

Bulls and Bears........

Never seen one on Ryanair, I'd be surprised if they could use a keyboard anyway.

 

[Wyred]

Bulls and Bears........

Never seen one on Ryanair, I'd be surprised if they could use a keyboard anyway.

Try Air Labrador you might see a few dogs

 

[Gramaisc]

 

[mitch]

He's semi naked, Shirley an arrestable offence? A pilot dangaling his gonads, and the cap is very 'in the navy' esq. Missing leather hot pants IMO.

 

[Vault_girl]

I read on a website about travelling that tickets go down until around 26 days before the flight then start to go back up again. It may have been for america though. I thought this was interesting as I always though last minute tickets would be cheapest as they want to fill the last few seat (i know they overbook on purpose though) so booking tickets a week before the holiday isn't actually the best thing to do. more like a month.