Airline pricing is all kinds of wacky. A friend of mine was trying to get round trip tickets from city A to city B recently. He found that it was significantl

Airline pricing is all kinds of wacky. A friend of mine was trying to get round trip tickets from city A to city B recently. He found that it was significantly cheaper to purchase flights from city Z to B with a layover in A. All the flights between A and B were the same, but for some reason adding an extra destination of Z made it cheaper. Airlines are in huge trouble from factors outside their control. They failed at being in control of their own destiny, and allowed other people/companies to control them.