Airline booking ploys

The cross- posting (English cross ticketing ) is a savings method in booking air tickets, when booked for the return flight, although in fact only one route is flown and will forfeit a portion of the ticket on purpose. So the passenger saves costs compared with an often much more expensive normal flight. By purchasing tickets with intersecting data, the minimum stay is to be avoided at the destination.

  • 3.1 Example

Applications

In a cross- posting ( also cross- ticket cross- flight English: back -to-back ticket) are two or more reservations interleaved in time with each other. This method is used to take advantage of cheaper transport fares.

Normal booking for 2 trips to 2 appointments between the same locations A and B:

  • Booking 1: Departure date 1 A → B, return date 1 B → A
  • Book 2: Departure date 2 A → B, return date 2 B → A

The second entry is performed in the opposite direction at the cross posting - this the way of the second book is actually the return flight from the first appointment:

  • Booking 1: Departure date 1 A → B, return date 2 B → A
  • Book 2: Departure date 1 B → A, return date 2 A → B

Some airlines are flights where the return flight is just past the outbound flight, more expensive than if the return flight is several days later. With this method, the distance for the return flight is especially for business travel flights increased, which can lead to significantly lower rates.

A second variant of cross- postings is to book two round-trip tickets, of which only a section is taken to match a desired appointment for:

  • Booking 1: Departure date any A → B (will not be started ) return date 1 B → A
  • Book 2: Departure date 1 A → B, Return any date 1 B → A (not started )

In this method special offers are used, in which two flights are cheaper than a flight with regular tariff.

Airlines have tried to impede cross- postings, by refusing the return flight, if the outbound flight is not commenced. This was considered in Germany at various court rulings as inadmissible.

Cross ticketing

Since air tickets for the return flight ( engl. return ticket) are often cheaper than a simple way ticket ( engl. one way ticket ), this results in a cost advantage for the passenger. Of course, the airline can not force them to taking up his return flight the passenger. Problems arise, however, if the passenger only wants to use the return ticket without removing the previously way ticket to complete.

Another shopping tactics of passengers aims to bypass the required minimum length of stay at the resort for certain offer prices. If the price difference worth the passenger buys two very cheap round trip airline tickets with a prescribed minimum length of stay, but uses the way of a ticket and the return ticket of the other round-trip flight. The customer can mix and a one-way ticket and a return ticket expired and can still save money anyway.

With their pricing try airlines of service travelers who rely on a quick trip to continue to require the more expensive full price, while simultaneously search with special deals new customers among the tourists to tap that want to lock them with the required minimum length of stay to business customers. The airlines coordinate their ticket prices on the purchasing power and the competitive situation in the individual countries flown, resulting in significant regional price differences, the attentive customer want to use to their advantage.

Against the austerity of their customers, by means of cross ticketing the minimum length of stay and therefore the tariff system of the airlines to circumvent and outwit, the airlines are trying to fight back by setting them in their terms and conditions and in their conditions of carriage that the return ticket loses its validity when the Departure was not started. However, the District Court Frankfurt am Main in 2007 decided ( Case No. 31 C 2972/05-74 ) that airline tickets do not have to be necessarily used in the booked order the return flight without previous way possible. The booked flights must be taken completely and in the order booked in claim according to terms of many airlines. The ticket for the second part flight is invalid if the first part of flight was not perceived. The airline canceled the flight back automatically when the way was not started.

Example

Flight from Frankfurt am Main to Dresden flights following days will be required:

  • Departure date: on 09th of the month
  • Return: the 10th of the month
  • A regular posting this round-trip flight combination costs 345 euros

In order to save money is not booked the regular flight combination for the cross posting but two round- trip tickets at a reduced price, which requires a minimum stay of 5 days in this example:

  • Book 1, Special price € 77: Departure on 03 of the month (the exact date does not care as long as he is at least 5 days before the return flight)
  • Return to the 10th of the month
  • Departure on 09 of the month
  • Return on the 15th of the month (the exact date is here matter as long as he is at least 5 days after the flight )

The only way of booking 2 and the return flight from booking 1 The other two flights are now stepping expire unused. Thus, the prescribed minimum stay periods are bypassed at the destination. Due to the action prices € 191 saves in this example anyway.

Cross Border Selling

The cross-border selling is the booking of a flight, which consists of several consecutive flights. The passenger plans but at the moment when, to take only a subset of the routes to complete. Here cheap prices be exploited for a different market, such as abroad, are intended.

Example

One for 4000 Euro low given flight leads from Cairo via Frankfurt to Sao Paulo. The German customer booked this flight, which is conveniently offered by the airline, to win customers in Cairo, but wants to fly only from Frankfurt to Sao Paulo. The more expensive option would be a regular round-trip flight from Frankfurt to Sao Paulo for 6000 euros.

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