Airline ticket prices

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Explain this to me...So I just booked a ticket to go to Germany. I have a connection in Chicago and in London. Out of curiousity, I checked to see how much it would be to fly to London. Choosing the exact same flights as I would for Germany, only this time staying in London, instead of continuing on to Munich- 300 dollars more.

Really? That makes sense. Uh...no.

I woke up next to a blowup doll Ash....so what do you think?

[piisfish 140]

now look at the price the other way round, germany to US and London to US, you'll see other differences
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yah...I just thought it was odd...EXACT same flights to Chicago and London..just taking out the flight to Munich would cost 300 dollars.

I woke up next to a blowup doll Ash....so what do you think?

[Andy9o8 2]

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Explain this to me...So I just booked a ticket to go to Germany. I have a connection in Chicago and in London. Out of curiousity, I checked to see how much it would be to fly to London. Choosing the exact same flights as I would for Germany, only this time staying in London, instead of continuing on to Munich- 300 dollars more.

Really? That makes sense. Uh...no.

Well, it depends on the demand of flight-packages from your location to London, versus to Germany. If, for example, flight packages to Germany are in less demand, the price adjusts accordingly, to act as an incentive to consumers to buy them. There's also witchcraft involved, but I'm not at liberty to reveal those secrets.

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Explain this to me...

I work for an airline and I don't even know. And I have asked and tried to figure out how they price flights. I don't think anyone knows.

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[airdvr 210]

It's a profit driven thing. There must be heavier demand for the higher priced route.

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I just thought it was funny...but I am glad that my flight is cheaper!

I woke up next to a blowup doll Ash....so what do you think?

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Well, it depends on the demand of flight-packages from your location to London, versus to Germany. If, for example, flight packages to Germany are in less demand, the price adjusts accordingly, to act as an incentive to consumers to buy them.

That's it pretty much in a nutshell. When I look at price reports in the travel section of my newspaper, I see ridiculously low prices from Birmingham to New Orleans, but tickets are 2 or 3 times as much to fly from BHM to Mobile, AL.

Nobody wants to fly to a shithole.

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I thought they paid money to have people fly to Mobile.

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Happens all the time.

Last time I went to Costa Rica, The best Airfare available at the time was about $770 Round Trip from Atlanta (Non-stop). Then I found our that the same airline was running a special Miami to Costa Rica for $199 (Connecting in Atlanta Both way).

So Get on the Plan in Atlanta - $770
Get on the plane in Miami and fly to Atalanta to get on the same exact Flight to CR - $199

So I bough a Oneway ticket to Miami for $120.
Bought a Round Trip Miami-SanJose Costa Rica for $199
Flew to Miami got on the plane that flew To Atlanta and then on to San Jose.
On the way Back, I just got off in Atlanta.
Saved me $450 and Got some extra skymiles that I needed to make status that year.