Revealed: Why using 'hacks' to find the cheapest plane ticket is a waste of time (but there's an exception to the rule, researchers say)
A new study examined how prices are set at a major U.S. airline. Hacks such as buying your ticket on a Tuesday are largely futile, study finds READ MORE: Hack to get return flights to Maldives for under £250
Buy your ticket on a Tuesday, search through your browser's incognito mode, or use a VPN to do pretending to live somewhere different - if you're trying to get cheaper flights using popular hacks like these, it's largely a waste of time.
That's according to a new study that examined the structure and processes behind pricing at a major U.S. airline.
The pricing system discovered by the study, which is considered representative of airlines. across the world, is at odds with what most travelers think.
The study was co-authored by Olivia Natan of the Berkeley Haas School of Business, who said: "There are many tricks to finding tickets cheaper plane tickets. . But our data shows that many of these beliefs are false.'
Natan, who conducted the research alongside academics at the University of Chicago , of Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, adds: “At first, we didn't know how to rationalize the things we were seeing.”
Buy your ticket on a Tuesday, search through your browser's incognito mode, or use a VPN to do pretending to live somewhere different - if you're trying to get cheaper flights using popular hacks like these, it's largely a waste of time.
That's according to a new study that examined the structure and processes behind pricing at a major U.S. airline.
The pricing system discovered by the study, which is considered representative of airlines. across the world, is at odds with what most travelers think.
The study was co-authored by Olivia Natan of the Berkeley Haas School of Business, who said: "There are many tricks to finding tickets cheaper plane tickets. . But our data shows that many of these beliefs are false.'
Natan, who conducted the research alongside academics at the University of Chicago , of Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, adds: “At first, we didn't know how to rationalize the things we were seeing.”
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