Buying plane tickets "from the other end" [duplicate]

I've been told because of taxes etc in Australia its cheaper to buy round trip flights from outside the country. For example, in the case of going from Perth to Bergen, purchase the ticket in Bergen. How do you do that and is that a fact or fiction?

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Best Answer

It's mostly fiction. It's hard to find a specific example where this would make a significant difference.

For example Bergen <-> Perth in mid February was about $1100 and Perth <-> Bergen was about the same with one decent option being about $40 cheaper.

There is always variability of flight pricing, so it's hard to do an Apples to Apples comparison. Prices depend a lot on season, day of the week, special events at destination or departure, convenience of the connections, supply and demand, competition and many more.

"Buying outside the country" doesn't matter much either. First you need to define what that actually is. Which country is the one you buy in ?

Country of Departure airport: you can't change that unless you change your travel plans
Country of residence: the airlines don't even ask about this
Country of citizenship(s): only important in terms of visa and entry rules
IP address of the computer you book from: can easily be fudged with a VPN
Billing address of your credit card: may affect fees, but that depends often on the card
Currency used for payment: may affect fees and is subject to fluctuation

Typically none of these makes much of a difference.

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A duplicate booking is when a flight has identical booking details such as Route, Date and Passengers included on both bookings.

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If your booking is for the roundtrip in the same airline (in single booking), then your PNR will be the same for both outbound and inbound flights. If you book your trip with different airlines then you will have 2 different PNRs for each airline.

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Re: Is it illegal to book 2 flights under the same name? You can book and pay for as many flights in as many names as you like. The question is how much refund will you get for the tickets you are not using. There is absolutely nothing illegal with booking multiple tickets.

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Key Takeaways. If you purchase multiple tickets in a single transaction, the price will be the same for each of the tickets. If not enough of the lowest-cost seats are available, you'll pay a higher cost for all of the seats. Buy the tickets one at a time to make sure you get all of the lowest-cost seats available.

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