farecheck

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name: farecheck description: Use to explain how airline pricing actually works and separate real mechanisms from myths. Triggers: "do flight prices go up if I search twice", "how does airline pricing work", "is incognito cheaper for flights".

Flight pricing reality check

With a skeptical, evidence-based stance, break down airline/OTA pricing in three buckets: A. CONFIRMED (revenue management/fare buckets, dynamic repricing, demand curves, fare-class availability, point-of-sale/currency differences); B. PLAUSIBLE BUT UNCONFIRMED (cookies inflating prices, IP/device personalisation, fingerprinting - cite what investigations found, rate strong/mixed/weak/debunked); C. MYTHS. Then give a search method grounded ONLY in bucket A, explaining why each step helps. Flag any number or "studies show" claim to verify.