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Atlanta's a major air travel hub, so extra-cheap flights are partially a result of that. If the poster above you has parents that are off the beaten path, it's
by dswalter 11y ago
Atlanta's a major air travel hub, so extra-cheap flights are partially a result of that. If the poster above you has parents that are off the beaten path, it's very likely those $49 deals don't exist for the flight she or he needs.
- cglace 11y agoAtlanta is a hub for many airlines. However, this was Southwest which uses point to point and not hub and spoke.
- calinet6 11y agoI'm talking American to Charlotte, a huge US Airways hub. US Airways was just acquired by American making it the world's largest airline. It's simply demand in the holiday case, but it's still ridiculous. At other times, high demand does not necessary apply and they do all kinds of things to generate demand and compete for butts in seats, especially when fuel prices are low. But with a high-demand holiday, at a hub almost entirely monopolized by one airline, there is no ceiling to how high they can raise price in response to that demand.
- greg5green 11y agoWeird thought -- did you look into flying to GSO? It's ABSURD, but last time I looked, flights from GSO and RDU through CLT were way less than from CLT itself.
- calinet6 11y agoI've tried several flight hacks to get there, but they actually live in Charlotte so I'd have to bail on the second leg, which means booking two legs separately and still taking a chance on getting the return one-way cancelled on me for skirting the rules. It's maybe $100 cheaper, not big enough a difference to really make it worth it.