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Book your itinerary as a set of two one-way flights, rather than as a round trip. Every time I have looked, a single one-way is more expensive than a round-tri
by georgieporgie 16y ago
Book your itinerary as a set of two one-way flights, rather than as a round trip.
Every time I have looked, a single one-way is more expensive than a round-trip between the same locations. Maybe I've just been 'lucky'.
Edit: no, I'm just ignorant. Turns out domestic one-ways are more proportionally priced versus round-trips.
- DrJ 16y agothis is usually the case especially for international flights. You always end up trading flexibility for price.
- whakojacko 16y agoBut it's usually not the case for domestic US flights, which is what the article is about.
- georgieporgie 16y agoI just checked and you're right. One-way's were just about exactly 1/2 the price of a round trip. Shows how much domestic flying I do.
- gojomo 16y agoMy sense is that this has improved a lot recently, perhaps as a side-effect of trying to stay competitive in the travel-planning portals that can stitch together itineraries from multiple carriers. To wit: when switching in Kayak or Hipmunk from roundtrip to one-way and vice versa, the fares roughly or exactly match what you'd expect from decomposing/recomposing the parts. This was hardly ever the case in the past when using the airlines own portals, or Web 1.0 aggregators.
- alienfluid 16y agoIf your name is even remotely "exotic" (and mine seems to be), good luck checking in online - apparently one way tickets trigger some alarm in the depths of DHS.
- rdtsc 16y agoThat is true. And that basically tells us how stupid and ridiculous our security theater is. Someone planning to blow themselves up will supposedly save a couple of hundreds dollars in order to attract attention to themselves by buying a one-way ticket.
- shadowfox 16y agoI suppose their assumption is that people planning to do that don't know this/are dumb.
- yid 16y agoIs it the alien or the fluid that's more exotic? Or are we talking Mohammed or Ahmed?
- alienfluid 16y agoLol .. I haven't tried traveling with Alien Fluid yet, but will let you know how that goes ;). It's Ahmed that gets me caught up every time.