Round-Trip vs. One-Way

[polm]

Why are Round-Trip tickets cheaper than One-Way ?

I am flying to Israel in August and :

one-way = 1800 $

round-trip = 1100 $

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: polm
Why are Round-Trip tickets cheaper than One-Way ?

I am flying to Israel in August and :

one-way = 1800 $

round-trip = 1100 $

Incentive to come back? Hmm..

Maybe not.

 

[FoBoT]

round trip tickets are discounted, one way is not

so you are comparing the discounted round trip price to the one way full price

 

[benliong]

I usually still see roundtrip more expensive than one-way, but generally the difference isn't anything big. US<->HK would cost say $800 while one way would cost maybe $700. My Speculation is that they want to make sure all the flights are relatively full. If you have a lot of people going from HK to US but none the other way around, their profit would drop since they have to get the plane back anyways.

But yeah, I find that very annoying when I just want a 1-way ticket. Could you get the round trip ticket and screw the return ticket?

 

[benliong]

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[FoBoT]

nobody is going to make you use the return portion of a round trip, just buy it and don't go back, they won't hunt you down and put you on the plane

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
nobody is going to make you use the return portion of a round trip, just buy it and don't go back, they won't hunt you down and put you on the plane

Just imagine they would do that

 

[weezergirl]

Try STA Travel. they usually have cheaper one-ways.

 

[ElFenix]

the pricing scheme in the airline industry is the most screwed up pricing scheme known to man. you could write a doctoral dissertation on what is wrong with it