Airlines and their weird mathmatics..OneWay vs return
Category Airline Maths
So I'm sorting out my Boston - London Leg for my World Cup trip, and I have an unused airmiles ticket and an unused BOS-LHR ticket from last year, so I thought, well why not get the return leg on Airmiles and on the outgoing leg use the $ from the unused flight, the return ticket I'd looked at was ~$1200 so I thought, a single must be about 1/2 - 2/3 that cost. Check out the price difference...
Return Price
One Way Price
What kind of crazy mathmatics is that? I'll just take the return leg for $100 please.
So I'm sorting out my Boston - London Leg for my World Cup trip, and I have an unused airmiles ticket and an unused BOS-LHR ticket from last year, so I thought, well why not get the return leg on Airmiles and on the outgoing leg use the $ from the unused flight, the return ticket I'd looked at was ~$1200 so I thought, a single must be about 1/2 - 2/3 that cost. Check out the price difference...
Return Price
One Way Price
What kind of crazy mathmatics is that? I'll just take the return leg for $100 please.
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Posted by David Price At 03:43:00 PM On 05/14/2010 | - Website - |
1. use AA "shop by Price & Schedule" - this isn't the default shopping but you may see MUCH cheaper flights
2. select the cheapest/desirable itinerary that has the outbound leg you need & and only use that BOS-LHR flight. Try shopping for different return dates to find the cheapest.
3. Try BOS-LHR and LHR-(some other city) to find the cheapest roundtrip. If you aren't using the return flight, it doesn't matter where it goes.
"Long haul" (usually international) flights are still filed as round-trip fares. Markets w/ low cost carriers (Southwest, Ryan Air) have forced large airlines to move to mostly one-way fares but we don't have that yet for trans-Atlantic.
Posted by Chris McLellan At 12:59:41 PM On 05/19/2010 | - Website - |