Aer Lingus USA V Aer Lingus IRE

Preset No.3

My browser brought me to the US version of Aer Lingus. So I looked at a few flights.

Out: Mon 1st FEB JFK-DUB
Ret: Thur 4th FEB DUB - JFK

Total Cost: $499.40 or using xe.com €348

Try it the other way.

Out: Mon 1st FEB DUB-JFK
Ret: Thur 4th FEB JFK - DUB

Total Cost: €448

So its €100 less for Americans travelling to Ireland than Irish travelling to America. I checked a couple of others and the outbound Ireland flight is a lot cheaper.

rubadub

Were there the exact same taxes involved? Anyway it is not exactly like for like, they are different days so there could be simply more/less demand on certain days for certain flights.

p.s. always add 3% to your XE rate for what you really are likely to pay

Colonel Sanders

rubadub wrote: »

p.s. always add 3% to your XE rate for what you really are likely to pay

I use PTSB Ice Visa and get charged 1.75%. The rate before commission is usually XE rate

Preset No.3

They are actually the same days but even at that I did try a few other dates for comparison. Heading from the US to Ireland is cheaper that the outbound flight being from Dublin.

James.

yeah booking through the american site is cheaper.
i saved a bit by using it a few years ago.

a return flight from ireland to san fran was about 500 on the irish site.
but by booking a single on the irish site and a single on the ameriacn site i saved about 50 euro.
and that was for the exact same flights

mcaul

Preset No.3 wrote: »

My browser brought me to the US version of Aer Lingus. So I looked at a few flights.

Out: Mon 1st FEB JFK-DUB
Ret: Thur 4th FEB DUB - JFK

Total Cost: $499.40 or using xe.com €348

Try it the other way.

Out: Mon 1st FEB DUB-JFK
Ret: Thur 4th FEB JFK - DUB

Total Cost: €448

So its €100 less for Americans travelling to Ireland than Irish travelling to America. I checked a couple of others and the outbound Ireland flight is a lot cheaper.

You are quoting different days for different flights.

On the US site you are being quoted for JFK to Dublin. - Try the Irish site with an earlier depart date with a rfeturn date from USA on 1st Feb and see what the cost is.

Also, within market promotions and currency exchange can also make a difference.

Using EXACT same dates for same direction is as follows

USA Site
Depart JFK 28th Jan one way on US site = $329
Depart Dublin 01 Feb one way on USA site $329

Irish site
Depart JFK 28th Jan one way Irish site €204
Depart Dublin 01 Feb one way Irish site €204

All prices are before taxes.

At current exchange of $1.43, the Irish site works out cheaper when you compare IDENTICAL flights.

Preset No.3

So a flight going to Dublin from New York on the 1st Feb AND a flight going to New York from Dublin on the 1st Feb are actually going on different days? Thats what your saying???

rubadub

Preset No.3 wrote: »

So a flight going to Dublin from New York on the 1st Feb AND a flight going to New York from Dublin on the 1st Feb are actually going on different days? Thats what your saying???

He is comparing like with like, in your original post you have 4 different flights listed prices vary a lot day by day. Being on different days I would expect differences -and it could swing either way.

Say there was an Irish rugby match on in Scotland on a saturday evening. I would expect a Ireland-scotland ticket to cost a fortune on that saturday. Conversely I would also expect a scotland-ireland ticket on that saturday to be very cheap -reason is they might have extra planes going to scotland that day to cope with the demand, and these planes would otherwise be empty on the way back.

mcaul

Preset No.3 wrote: »

So a flight going to Dublin from New York on the 1st Feb AND a flight going to New York from Dublin on the 1st Feb are actually going on different days? Thats what your saying???

Departing New York & Departing dublin are 2 entirely different products.

You compared a flight going New York / Dub on 1st of feb with a flight going new york / dub on 4th feb - thus same flight on different dates.

I checked both sites for the precise same flight, going from & to the precise same destination at the precise same time with the only difference being one booked in US dollars & one booked in Euro.

The euro site was cheaper.

Enii

Preset No.3 wrote: »

So a flight going to Dublin from New York on the 1st Feb AND a flight going to New York from Dublin on the 1st Feb are actually going on different days? Thats what your saying???

They are on the same days but they are different flights.

You are not comparing like with like.
Dub-JFK is not the same flight as JFK-Dub (even if it is on the same day)

Plus, as flights begin to book up, the price goes up.

The dearer flight may be nearly fully booked, hence the dearer price.