Hi,
I was wondering if one can force an airline to apply the price from one country compared to another one.
Example: I often fly Geneva(Switzerland)->Portland, OR->Geneva.
The price on Delta Airlines is $1600 when bought GVA-PDX-GVA. It's $900 for the same flight but starting from the US, PDX-GVA-PDX.
Now, taxes are the sames in airports, routes are the same.
It looks like there is no way to buy it from outside the US at the US price.
After writing to Delta about that and asking for a price-match, they just replied that fares change minute by minute. Telling me that when I check one way, I'm lucky since it's cheap, but then the inverted route, I have no luck, the price just almost doubled. If I check again US-Switzerland-US, I'm lucky again, it dropped but I can't buy it, then I'm out of luck again when switching to the foreign web site.
Result: I will fly United/Lufthansa instead of Delta.
Again, telling me that they have different fees abroad is not an excuse since no matter which way you fly, the two airports charge the airline anyway.
Any idea on how to get flights at the regular price instead of being ripped-off when abroad?
Even price search engines tell you that the fare will be priced in foreign currency (the one from the departing airport).
Thanks for any advice.
Steve
I was wondering if one can force an airline to apply the price from one country compared to another one.
Example: I often fly Geneva(Switzerland)->Portland, OR->Geneva.
The price on Delta Airlines is $1600 when bought GVA-PDX-GVA. It's $900 for the same flight but starting from the US, PDX-GVA-PDX.
Now, taxes are the sames in airports, routes are the same.
It looks like there is no way to buy it from outside the US at the US price.
After writing to Delta about that and asking for a price-match, they just replied that fares change minute by minute. Telling me that when I check one way, I'm lucky since it's cheap, but then the inverted route, I have no luck, the price just almost doubled. If I check again US-Switzerland-US, I'm lucky again, it dropped but I can't buy it, then I'm out of luck again when switching to the foreign web site.
Result: I will fly United/Lufthansa instead of Delta.
Again, telling me that they have different fees abroad is not an excuse since no matter which way you fly, the two airports charge the airline anyway.
Any idea on how to get flights at the regular price instead of being ripped-off when abroad?
Even price search engines tell you that the fare will be priced in foreign currency (the one from the departing airport).
Thanks for any advice.
Steve