Get cheaper flights online with a VPN!

you might use a vpn for

any number of reasons from accessing

region blocked content to logging into

your school's library from off-campus to

obfuscating your ip address when you're

legally downloading backups of your

movies and games

but did you know that a vpn can be used

to potentially save

thousands of dollars on your next

airplane ticket

we are going to show you guys how in

just a few seconds you can completely

stymie the airline's algorithms and get

the best possible price for your next

trip oh and by the way it works for

hotel and car rentals too

now full disclosure this works with just

about any vpn of your choosing but we

will be using private internet access

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to demonstrate how airlines and flight

booking services show different search

results depending on who you are and

where you're from we're going to do a

test where we book a flight from london

to denver and see if we get different

prices

so the first thing we're going to do is

our regular old search as if we live in

london so if i type

show my location into google it's

telling me i'm in london

now if i go to the expedia uk site and

book a flight from lhr to den for

september 11th to 15th and choose

business class the cheapest result i get

is a direct flight from iberia airlines

for five thousand nine hundred and

thirty five pounds that's over seventy

five hundred us dollars

pretty steep okay so now let's see if we

can get a better price

the first thing that you need to do is

clear the cookies from your browser

remember that cookies are messages that

web servers pass to your browser as you

surf the internet creating a record of

your activity online

travel sites use cookies to help them

drive ticket sales

so if you search for a flight but then

you leave without buying the cookies

will tell them that and then the next

time you search for that flight they

might increase the price that you see by

maybe a small amount 10

20

at that point human psychology compels

you to buy the ticket right now out of

fear that the price will continue to go

up

fortunately you can get browser

extensions that help you delete cookies

as you go we're using auto cookie delete

which clears all the cookies generated

by a tab as soon as you close it or it

can dump them automatically as you

browse

cool next we're going to use our vpn to

make it look like we're browsing from

somewhere else

now there are differing theories as to

what the best location to book flights

from is

i've heard that booking from the us

always gets the best deal i've heard

that booking from a less affluent place

like the midwest instead of the coast or

a less affluent country like india

instead of germany is the way to go and

then there are those who swear that

booking from the destination country is

the best or even that it's the local

currency of the airline itself that

matters

naturally the only way to test these

theories is to run your own experiments

and this is where your choice of vpn

makes a difference because you want a

vpn that has servers in lots of

different locations all around the world

so you can see that pia has a decently

long list here including some countries

with multiple servers within them so

since we're flying from london to denver

i'm going to choose the denver server

so now i'm going back to my browser

making sure my cookies are cleared and

now when i tell google to show me my

location

you can see that it thinks i'm in denver

going back to expedia and searching for

the same flight again bam

there's that same non-stop flight from

iberia airlines this time for

49.16 u.s dollars instead of 7 700 a

full 2

800 cheaper

that is all there is to it

if you travel a lot obviously the

savings can end up adding up pretty

quickly for us

booking from the destination definitely

looks like a winning strategy but let us

know in the comments below after you've

tried it if you've had success with some

other way

regardless of all of that having a good

vpn is definitely worth it especially

considering that this is only one of the

many things that a vpn can be used for

and they're cheap pia can be had for as

little as two dollars and 91 cents a

month so be sure to check them out at

the link below you only have to save two

thousand dollars on a flight like once

to pay for an entire lifetime of pia

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