Airlines make no sense

[RichardE]

So a ticket leaving on Feb the 6th, a tuesday, 2007 from New York to Dublin is 384$...

This flight goes from New York to London, 2 hour stop over, London to Dublin


A ticket on the same days from New York to London is 428$....

That makes no sense 🙁

 

[Vincent]

It makes perfect sense: supply and demand

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Because they can...

 

[SZLiao214]

Did you get stuck paying the 428 price?

 

[z0mb13]

bring no check in luggage, and step off london FTW!

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Vincent
It makes perfect sense: supply and demand

just like the oil prices!

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: SZLiao214
Did you get stuck paying the 428 price?

No, Im still looking.

I think I might do that z0omb 😀

 

[iamwiz82]

I shudder at the thought of the algorithms that airlines use to create their pricing.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Vincent
It makes perfect sense: supply and demand

just like the oil prices!

Not exactly.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Those are some cheap tix! It's costing my company $1300 to send me to Frankfurt on Lufthansa.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Because it's Lufthansa - you know what that stands for right? 😉

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
bring no check in luggage, and step off london FTW!

Is this trip 1-way or round-trip? If you get off the flight in London, how do you get back to NY when your round-trip ticket would be expecting a departure from Dublin?

The again, at that price, I assume it is 1-way?

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: z0mb13
bring no check in luggage, and step off london FTW!

Is this trip 1-way or round-trip? If you get off the flight in London, how do you get back to NY when your round-trip ticket would be expecting a departure from Dublin?

The again, at that price, I assume it is 1-way?

It's round trip.

One ways and round trips cost the same. It's actually fly into London, fly out of Madrid. I was orinally thinking flying NY to London, than out of Madric to NY a few months later. I thought maybe Ill check NY to Dublin to check the prices, and saw this. So it works out for me, but would have sucked if I had not waited another 2 weeks to buy tickets. Odd the way they figure out pricing though.

 

[broon]

Why not just fly to Dublin?

 

[Dunbar]

That $44 is really going to go a long way traveling around Europe...

 

[CaffeineAndStuff]

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: z0mb13
bring no check in luggage, and step off london FTW!

Is this trip 1-way or round-trip? If you get off the flight in London, how do you get back to NY when your round-trip ticket would be expecting a departure from Dublin?

The again, at that price, I assume it is 1-way?

It's round trip.

One ways and round trips cost the same. It's actually fly into London, fly out of Madrid. I was orinally thinking flying NY to London, than out of Madric to NY a few months later. I thought maybe Ill check NY to Dublin to check the prices, and saw this. So it works out for me, but would have sucked if I had not waited another 2 weeks to buy tickets. Odd the way they figure out pricing though.

If you don't fly on a leg of a ticket it will cancel all remaining legs of the ticket so if you book
JFK -> LHR -> DUB MAD -> JFK
and fail to fly LHR -> DUB then your return leg will be cancelled.

If you are going to do this make sure you book 2 completely seperate 1-way tickets.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: z0mb13
bring no check in luggage, and step off london FTW!

Is this trip 1-way or round-trip? If you get off the flight in London, how do you get back to NY when your round-trip ticket would be expecting a departure from Dublin?

The again, at that price, I assume it is 1-way?

It's round trip.

One ways and round trips cost the same. It's actually fly into London, fly out of Madrid. I was orinally thinking flying NY to London, than out of Madric to NY a few months later. I thought maybe Ill check NY to Dublin to check the prices, and saw this. So it works out for me, but would have sucked if I had not waited another 2 weeks to buy tickets. Odd the way they figure out pricing though.

If you don't fly on a leg of a ticket it will cancel all remaining legs of the ticket so if you book
JFK -> LHR -> DUB MAD -> JFK
and fail to fly LHR -> DUB then your return leg will be cancelled.

If you are going to do this make sure you book 2 completely seperate 1-way tickets.

And skipping one leg of a one way ticket is really going to look suspicious. Be prepared for a search on the way back

 

[dman]

Is it possible that airport / other travel taxes into London are higher than in Dublin, hence the final destination in London you pay more?

I'll suppose that it is, but it's probably just because they can.