A Viral Travel Hack Claims To Slash Flight Fares By 50% – Is It Too Good To Be True?

Booking flights from a public computer.

Forget fare alerts and late-night bookings. The newest money-saving tip on TikTok and Instagram tells you to walk into a public library or cyber cafe, sit at a shared computer and book your flight from there. According to creators it can cut fares sharply, and some even claim that they saved hundreds of dollars on one ticket.

So does it work? Not really! Here is what we found.

The trick seems to trace back to an Instagram reel from creator @talia_likeitis, who argued that airlines and travel companies build detailed consumer profiles using browsing behavior, search history and other data. It gained speed when creator Ellyce Fulmore claimed she saved $500 on a flight simply by booking from a public library computer instead of her personal device. One tweet repeating the tip has picked up more than 200,000 likes.

The logic is simple: Your phone and laptop store cookies, saved logins and search history. The theory says airlines read this data, guess how badly you want to travel, and push the price up just for you. A public computer has none of that history, so you supposedly see the "real" fare.

Google says the…

Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle