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Urban legend or truth in flying for free/cheap

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  • 27-06-2008 3:22pm
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    Gone West
    Registered Users Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭


    I've seen and heard lots about this.
    The idea is that you get a cheap/free one way flight somewhere if you carry and deliver a package.
    Does this actually happen?
    Anyone got any info for curiousitys sake?


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    ImDave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    I was wondering this too. Like in the movie Eurotrip where the two lads carried packages from the US to London and got flights for near nothing.


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    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    I'll pay for your flight if you bring a package to me from a friend in thailand


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    Foggy43
    Registered Users Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Foggy43


    You mean this?

    http://www.cheapairtravelclub.com/Learn_how_to_get_those_cheap_international_travel_cheap_international_flight_tickets..html


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    I have a package of plain flour coming in from Colombia via Bogota,pm me for a cheap ticket to bring it to Dublin:cool:


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    Fabio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Fabio


    Foggy43 wrote: »
    You mean this?

    http://www.cheapairtravelclub.com/Learn_how_to_get_those_cheap_international_travel_cheap_international_flight_tickets..html

    That site looks just a little bit dodgy....


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    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    FuzzyLogic wrote: »
    I've seen and heard lots about this.
    The idea is that you get a cheap/free one way flight somewhere if you carry and deliver a package.
    Does this actually happen?
    Anyone got any info for curiousitys sake?


    A guy i know went to America to pick up some Software for the business he works in and then came back the next day, paid for by his company.


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    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    It used to be a big thing with flights to and from OZ, My cousin used it a few times, only hassle is that you are very limited in personal baggage depending on what you are bringing and also the risk eliment, I.E Packet of Odlums.


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    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    It used to be a big thing with flights to and from OZ

    That's true, DHL used to do it all the time. Not any more unfortunately. When working for DHL I was asked (well, I begged a bit) to courier a package to Munich at short notice. €500 spending money, €800 return ticket and a day off and best of all, London-Munich BA first class. Ahhh! That was the life. Until I arrived. Air Finglas never put the package on the Dublin-London plane, and the recipients were well pissed. Not my problem though. I shipped myself off to the Best Western (the only one they could find, my boss apologised later) and emptied the minibar. Great fun, and to cap it all off I met my girlfriend while working there. Great company.


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