If you are searching for an airfare on either an airlines website search engine or through a larger search engine like Travelocity, always check if they have a search engine operating from another country.

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With this example of finding a cheaper flight on the Australia American Airlines site, it could be that someone coming all the way from Australia may not care to much exactly what time they are going to fly, whereas the business man booking in the United States may be on a tighter schedule. Therefore the American based search will show higher prices.

Alternatively, there could be no logic in the system or there may be a time delay between system updates. Generally search engines would want to update when there is not as much traffic so they would maybe do this at mid night or two in the morning. Because there is time zone differences, the engines may therefore be updating at different times.

This means search engine ‘A’ may have updated with a more expensive fare, but the fare will still be cheaper for a few hours on search engine ‘B,’ until search engine ‘B’ updates itself.

This could also work in the reverse. Search engine ‘A’ may have published a sale fare, where as search engine ‘B’ does not yet have that published sales fare.

Understand that the airlines want to get as much money as they possibly can for the ticket. This is a basic business concept. A products value is determined by how much the customer is prepared to pay. Therefore a search engine operating out of a developing country may have cheaper flights.

Ultimately you need to test and find the best way to screw the search airlines and search engines and find the best price.