Tips on how to land the best price for your airline ticket.

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

You may get a good deal if you know where to look.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/26/pf/saving/...sion=2009032612

[Christopher]

One thing is to clear out the cache on your browser when searching for airfares. That will help you get the cheapest fares.

[Robert S.]

One thing is to clear out the cache on your browser when searching for airfares. That will help you get the cheapest fares.

Where did this possible gold nugget of esoteric wisdom come from? You are saying to delete your cookies before you search for ticket prices?

Edited March 26, 2009 by Robert S. (see edit history)

[Sebastian]

I had the same issue of 'cache clearing' recently at the CZ web site when trying to get that special 199 junket from lax to guz. clear the cache, it was visible.

[Christopher]

One thing is to clear out the cache on your browser when searching for airfares. That will help you get the cheapest fares.

Where did this possible gold nugget of esoteric wisdom come from? You are saying to delete your cookies before you search for ticket prices?

When you ask for a page from a web server when you have a copy of it in your browser cache, server either tells the browser to use it's local copy or sends a new copy of the page.

 

Most often, its how old your browsers copy is, that determines whether the server sends a new page. It's too complicated to program the server to send a new page based on whether price happened since your cached copy was downloaded.

 

In that case, what happens when an airline decides to sell a small block of tickets at a discount? If your old copy in the browser cache is not old enough, you will not see the discounted price. By the time your copy ages out, if the block of tickets might be sold, the price will be back where it was or even higher.

 

Airlines don't care, they sell the discounted tickets either way.

 

Anyway, don't just delete your cookies, delete the browser cache too.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Christopher (see edit history)

[usaRichard]

When you ask for a page from a web server when you have a copy of it in your browser cache, server either tells the browser to use it's local copy or sends a new copy of the page.

 

Most often, its how old your browsers copy is, that determines whether the server sends a new page. It's too complicated to program the server to send a new page based on whether price happened since your cached copy was downloaded.

 

In that case, what happens when an airline decides to sell a small block of tickets at a discount? If your old copy in the browser cache is not old enough, you will not see the discounted price. By the time your copy ages out, if the block of tickets might be sold, the price will be back where it was or even higher.

 

Airlines don't care, they sell the discounted tickets either way.

 

Anyway, don't just delete your cookies, delete the browser cache too.

I have to loose my remembered UN's and PW's ...damn it better be worth it.

[Christopher]

When you ask for a page from a web server when you have a copy of it in your browser cache, server either tells the browser to use it's local copy or sends a new copy of the page.

 

Most often, its how old your browsers copy is, that determines whether the server sends a new page. It's too complicated to program the server to send a new page based on whether price happened since your cached copy was downloaded.

 

In that case, what happens when an airline decides to sell a small block of tickets at a discount? If your old copy in the browser cache is not old enough, you will not see the discounted price. By the time your copy ages out, if the block of tickets might be sold, the price will be back where it was or even higher.

 

Airlines don't care, they sell the discounted tickets either way.

 

Anyway, don't just delete your cookies, delete the browser cache too.

I have to loose my remembered UN's and PW's ...damn it better be worth it.

You should not need to delete your cookies.

 

For Internet Exploder: click "Tools" in the men bar, then click "Options".

On the "General" tab, click the button labeled "Delete Files".

 

For Firefox: click "Tools" in the men bar, then click "Options".

Select the "Privacy" tab, and click the button labeled "Clear Now ...".

Make sure only the checkboxes for "Cache" and "Offline Website Data" are checked, then click on "Clear Private Data Now".