Rocking up at the Airport and Buying Last Min Cheap Empty Seat at the Check In Desk


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Is this still a thing? Worked alot lately and was fancying few days somewhere/anywhere next week.. School hols though, and prices are stupid. Thought maybe thats a way round it?
 
More likely to charge you a fortune for last minute flights as everyone now does dynamic pricing. Best bet is to go on Skyscanner website and enter ‘Everywhere’ in the destination field. My daughter does it all the time and has had return flights to France, Germany and Spain for between £9 and £16..
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More likely to charge you a fortune for last minute flights as everyone now does dynamic pricing. Best bet is to go on Skyscanner website and enter ‘Everywhere’ in the destination field. My daughter does it all the time and has had return flights to France, Germany and Spain for between £9 and £16..
Aye I tried that at first. Newcastle was still hundreds to everywhere. Might just take the car up Scotland instead. Glencoe or somewhere
 
More likely to charge you a fortune for last minute flights as everyone now does dynamic pricing. Best bet is to go on Skyscanner website and enter ‘Everywhere’ in the destination field. My daughter does it all the time and has had return flights to France, Germany and Spain for between £9 and £16..
Dynamic pricing is a massive scam. I'm tracking some flights to Jakarta for this August on Google flights. I get emails when the price changes and got one yesterday saying it had gone up by £600. That's for one passenger in economy. Up from just over 1k to just over 1.6k.
 
Aye I tried that at first. Newcastle was still hundreds to everywhere. Might just take the car up Scotland instead. Glencoe or somewhere
Does she fly from NCL or elsewhere generally?
Dynamic pricing is a massive scam. I'm tracking some flights to Jakarta for this August on Google flights. I get emails when the price changes and got one yesterday saying it had gone up by £600. That's for one passenger in economy. Up from just over 1k to just over 1.6k.
Shocking that mind
 
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Flights on scheduled services get more expensive in the last 24 hours as airlines know that anyone who absolutely needs to fly on that flight will be willing to pay a premium. The airlines would rather fly with an empty seat and hope that someone will turn up at the last minute and spend 10x the normal price.

Package operators are more likely to have late availability deals. A few years ago I was made redundant with immediate effect so went straight home and booked an AI holiday to Turkey leaving at 6am the next morning for less than £300 all in. You just can't be picky about destination or hotel.
 
Flights on scheduled services get more expensive in the last 24 hours as airlines know that anyone who absolutely needs to fly on that flight will be willing to pay a premium. The airlines would rather fly with an empty seat and hope that someone will turn up at the last minute and spend 10x the normal price.

Package operators are more likely to have late availability deals. A few years ago I was made redundant with immediate effect so went straight home and booked an AI holiday to Turkey leaving at 6am the next morning for less than £300 all in. You just can't be picky about destination or hotel.
Cheers il look into that. Not fussy at all
 
Dynamic pricing is a massive scam. I'm tracking some flights to Jakarta for this August on Google flights. I get emails when the price changes and got one yesterday saying it had gone up by £600. That's for one passenger in economy. Up from just over 1k to just over 1.6k.

Having worked for a major airline in their booking department, you're nearly always booking as early as possible to get the best price. They'll have X amount at a certain price point, then once they sell out you go up to a higher fare class.

Depending on who you book with you might get it cheaper combining flight and hotel into a 'holiday' booking, which sometimes gives access to lower fare classes again

Also, Google flights was always way out from the fares we actually had available, so use it as a start point but check directly with the airline for confirmed prices. Clear cookies and use incognito mode too as they're sneaky bastards and sometimes put the fares up if you keep looking.

Good luck getting sorted
 
Having worked for a major airline in their booking department, you're nearly always booking as early as possible to get the best price. They'll have X amount at a certain price point, then once they sell out you go up to a higher fare class.

Depending on who you book with you might get it cheaper combining flight and hotel into a 'holiday' booking, which sometimes gives access to lower fare classes again

Also, Google flights was always way out from the fares we actually had available, so use it as a start point but check directly with the airline for confirmed prices. Clear cookies and use incognito mode too as they're sneaky bastards and sometimes put the fares up if you keep looking.

Good luck getting sorted
Cheers for that. Good to know.
 
Does she fly from NCL or elsewhere generally?

Shocking that mind
I don't know how they come up with the numbers. I flew with saudia airlines last July to Kuala Lumpur and it cost £525 each return. This year it's over three times that price around £1590. I expected an increase maybe up to 20 or even 30%. But 150% is just taking the piss big time.
 
Dynamic pricing is a massive scam. I'm tracking some flights to Jakarta for this August on Google flights. I get emails when the price changes and got one yesterday saying it had gone up by £600. That's for one passenger in economy. Up from just over 1k to just over 1.6k.

Not really a scam. Supply and demand in action.

Airline pricing is an advanced branch of mathematics designed to maximise revenue.
 
Not really a scam. Supply and demand in action.

Airline pricing is an advanced branch of mathematics designed to maximise revenue.
Or to summarise it's a scam. They are trying it on this far from the departure date hoping a sucker will pay it. Very few will and the price will come down. Otherwise it will be an empty flight.
I'm not sure why you think it's supply and demand when you have no evidence of that. If it was days before the flight it could be supply and demand but not this far.
 
Dynamic pricing is a massive scam. I'm tracking some flights to Jakarta for this August on Google flights. I get emails when the price changes and got one yesterday saying it had gone up by £600. That's for one passenger in economy. Up from just over 1k to just over 1.6k.
It really isn't a scam. It is the best way a business can maximise it's income. It can also mean very cheap deals.

If the airlines fix the pricing between them then that is a scam.
 
Having worked for a major airline in their booking department, you're nearly always booking as early as possible to get the best price. They'll have X amount at a certain price point, then once they sell out you go up to a higher fare class.

Depending on who you book with you might get it cheaper combining flight and hotel into a 'holiday' booking, which sometimes gives access to lower fare classes again

Also, Google flights was always way out from the fares we actually had available, so use it as a start point but check directly with the airline for confirmed prices. Clear cookies and use incognito mode too as they're sneaky bastards and sometimes put the fares up if you keep looking.

Good luck getting sorted
i've always found its a u shape. start off pricey then dip when they realise no one is booking on those dates, then once they start shifting the seats they go up again. basing this on LHR-JFK/EWR mainly :lol:
 

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