Why Your IP Address Is Making You Pay More for Flights
The same flight. Two prices. # Search for a flight from New York to Madrid on a US-based connection. Note the price. Now open a VPN, switch to an Argentinian server, and search again. The difference can be $100–300 on the same itinerary, same dates, same airline.
This isn’t a glitch. It’s intentional.
Why airlines do this # Airlines use point-of-sale pricing — a system that charges different fares depending on the country your booking originates from. This has existed since the era of travel agents, when an agent in Brazil would have access to different fare buckets than an agent in Germany.