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Are inexpensive last minute tickets a thing?
When the flight date like in one or two days, and there are unsold seats, is it a possibility that airlines reduce the ticket price in the flight day or so?
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Why does the price keep changing after I click on a flight deal in Expedia?
On Expedia, I found a good flight deal in the list of search results, but when I click it, the next page says:
Price change
Ticket prices changed from $ to $. Because prices change often, we ...
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Database/API for airline ticket prices [closed]
Some airlines have price calendar like the following:
But how can I get prices for various airlines/directions, for next 6 months, in one API/database?
Amadeus has API for getting info for one ...
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Why do return ticket prices jump up if the return flight is more than six months after the departing flight?
On Singapore Airlines, if you book a flight from London to Singapore for almost any date, the price is either £690 or £1088. For example, a flight leaving on the 28th of Dec with return on 28th of ...
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Why is it sometimes cheaper to connect via an airport than to finally fly to that airport? [duplicate]
You can fly from Vienna (VIE) to Addis Ababa (ADD) for 526€.
However, flying from Vienna (VIE) to Cape Town (CPT) connecting through Addis Ababa (ADD) is only 419€.
So when flying to ADD, it is ...
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Don't use first flight, but use return flight (both flights on same ticket) -- on which airlines and under which circumstances is this possible?
I found two (Austrian) articles (in German; from a not unserious newspaper):
https://derstandard.at/1271377233456/Nach-versaeumten-Hinflug-Urteil-untersagt-Airlines-Storno-von-Rueckflug
https://...
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Typical meal costs on Norwegian Air Shuttle long-haul flights
What are typical costs for meal service on Norwegian Air Shuttle on US-Europe flights?
Meals are described here, but no pricing.
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INDIA - Are last minute tickets cheaper at airline ticket counter vs online? [duplicate]
I'll be coming by road and I'm unsure of my arrival time at the airport, at least till a couple of days before the date.
The departure and arrival airports are well connected through multiple ...
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Are airline ticket prices cheaper for some flights than others even before tickets are sold?
Using WebJet travel for looking at return flights between Sydney and Brisbane, I noticed that even when I looked as far ahead as possible (Saturday 16 September to Sunday 17 September, approximately ...
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How can a return flight from A to B cost 1000 euros, while the same flights from B to A cost 500 euros? [duplicate]
Why is a return flight from JFK to Brussels a 1000 euros and a return flight from Brussels to JFK 500 euros?
My girlfriend is American and I'm Belgian so we fly over a lot. Every time she wants to ...
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Airlines with the most Surfboard friendly baggage policy & fees pricing?
Which airlines have the best pricing or packages for moving or carrying surf boards?
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Air Asia and Air Asia X on same flight, what's the difference?
There's a flight from KUL to MEL at night that gets into MEL the following morning. It comes up (same time, same plane, same everything) in my searches twice, however - as Air Asia, and Air Asia X. ...
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How do airlines determine ticket prices?
Based on the question How to find historical airfares?, I got curious. Is there a guide or resource that describes how the price of a ticket is determined?
When you search you often see curious ...
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Why don't airlines offer last minute empty seats cheap? [closed]
There are lots of empty seats out there. Why aren't airlines selling them cheap on the day of the flight?
I've seen a few anecdotal answers to this question. A lot of the answers come down to "...
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One-way flight much more expensive than double-way: what is the official airlines' explanation?
Interesting questions and answers about how to practically handle that weird situation have been posted here and they helped me learn more about the subject. However I have recently been almost hit by ...
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