did it work? If so, how much did you save and any tips?
Location-specific prices exist (they’re filed publicly and available on any GDS); however, it’s very limited in scope. It’s used for audience-targeted specific date and/or location.
You can’t just log in as if you were in Brasil and see YYZ-YVR flights at discounted prices.
Fictive example : During the Olympics, everyone wants to go to the host city. This means the flights in are full but flights out are empty. So they may make prices cheap for people in the home country to leave during that period to fill the returning planes.
If you check prices as logged from Canada, USA or the home country, everything would appear the same, except for a handful of flights leaving the host city that may have cheaper prices for locals to encourage them to visit Canada during the Olympics.
It’s mostly based on hub starting point, not locations, I’ll give you an example, for example I’m looking at flight athens to toronto on July.8 - it’s around $2600, if you search for return flight athens toronto july 8 and then toronto athens a year later, price is only $400 for the same flight and another $600 for return to athens year later.
You can just get home and cancel return flight for total of $1000 instead of $2600 (air company doesnt like that) or better option is to choose latitude fair for return flight for additional few hundred $, latitude can be changed for free unlimited amount of times, including destination so you can just bank it untill your next trip and change it to dates and destination that you need when you need to. This way you fly back for $400 instead of $2600 and don’t break any rules of canceling return flights all the time.
I tried this with Azure VMs. It doesn’t work.
There is no “cheaper fares” by location. You can choose different currencies if you want, but you don’t need a VPN for that
That’s a good way to look at it. Thanks!