Fuel Dumping - How To Buy Cheap Flight Tickets

I travel a lot so when it comes to save money, my ears are wide open and listen...

Flight tickets can be really expensive. 

Especially when you travel a lot, you need to check the price twice. I have never experienced a first class flight because the costs are so much higher than economy seats which literally makes no sense for me except when they offer comfortable beds and great food. Anyway, the price of a simple airplane tickets consist of airport charges, the aircrew, air traffic control (tower), aircraft and kerosene prices. 

This image is in german ... here a quick translation 

A flight ticket from Cologne to Bergamo costs 80€

(red - 16€ Airport | yellow - 15€ shares on the airplane | purple - 38€ shares for the airline | grey - 8€ kerosene | blue - 3€ air traffic control )

I found out a cool trick how to save some money by booking an airplane ticket with fuel dumping.

Have you ever seen something like this and wondered what it was ?

 But what is fuel dumping?

 The term fuel dumping has two different meanings. The first importance is the actual process. If an airplane is overloaded and needs to land sooner than expected, it drains fuel over an uninhabited area. This process is called "fuel dumping" and is used in emergencies with the approval of the relevant air traffic control authorities. The reason for that is very simple. When an aircraft touches down to the ground, it needs a special weight. The tank of an aviator is fueled at the start and thus heavier than is permitted for landing. Normally  plane looses the necessary fuel at a normal flight. If an emergency landing takes place, the aircraft has to get rid of the excess fuel, so that it can land safely

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The second meaning of fuel dumping is to avoid the fuel surcharge. If you buy a plane ticket, there are different price sections listed. They show how the price is put together. These are the base fare, taxes & fees and the YQ (fuel surcharge). Sometimes the price of the fuel surcharge be omitted. To that belongs - Brazil, New Zealand and the Philippines. If you book a single open jaw, which flights above one of the listed countries, you will save the fuel surcharge. In some cases, mistakes are made in the calculation of the fuel surcharge. It often happens at double open jaws and third strikes. The talk is about "Error Fares". There are ways how you can bypass the surcharges very easy but you need to do a little research before. When you book your flights, check which countries you are crossing! If they are traveling through countries where the state forbids the airlines to charge a fuel surcharge in the ticket price, this surcharge will be canceled and your overall ticket price will be reduced...

This is one of the reasons why open jaw flights are often much cheaper than flights with the same pick-up and drop-of airport. 

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Fuel dumping (or a fuel jettison) is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after takeoff, or before landing short of its intended destination (emergency landing) to reduce the aircraft's weight. - Wikepedia

Saving money is never easy. But this trick can save you quickly a few hundred dollars depending on the flight distance. So check flight rates before booking. 

Are you traveling a lot or have ever experienced and tried fuel dumping? I just read about it a few days ago and will definitely try it out on my next trip. 

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