Unusually good air fare

[cvchief]

Maybe I should drive..

Get me some fish in Veracruz on the way through?

 

[Diver Kat]

Of all the places to move to, we picked the place that ranks as #1 as the most expensive airport in the US for domestic fares! So I'm guessing that means international isn't exactly cheap either. However, we are seeing some decent (under $600) fares to Coz for next March. Guess we got spoiled a few years back when we were getting fares to Coz for under $400 out of Austin. :depressed:

 

[DandyDon]

Of all the places to move to, we picked the place that ranks as #1 as the most expensive airport in the US for domestic fares! So I'm guessing that means international isn't exactly cheap either. However, we are seeing some decent (under $600) fares to Coz for next March. Guess we got spoiled a few years back when we were getting fares to Coz for under $400 out of Austin. :depressed:

I'm seeing under $600 for all June 17-July 17 departures, even after rejecting overnight and 2-stop itineraries, depending on how many nights you want to stay. For late August when I want to go, some under $600, some over - but still cheaper than from Lubbock or Amarillo.

March if certainly too far out, even the airlines are just guessing, altho they would take your money on a March ticket - knowing that they'll change flights anyway and can jerk you around then. They are quoting most days under $600, except for one: for a March 30 departure, one-stop, same day, is $1154 RT?!

 

[Harro10]

Airline pricing is so odd. I recently booked a July airfare from upstate NY (Albany) to Cozumel via Atlanta for $480. If I had booked just from Atlanta to Cozumel the cost would have been $611.

 

[amoses]

I don't know why or how, but the same day I got notice of the special for June/July at SCC I checked airfare from DFW to CZM and it was only $358.00 on United. I jumped on that!! Two days later it was back up to $532 and I havent seen it go back down. I wonder why it got so low for those couple of days? At any rate, it worked out well for me.

 

[Mike]

Airline pricing is so odd. I recently booked a July airfare from upstate NY (Albany) to Cozumel via Atlanta for $480. If I had booked just from Atlanta to Cozumel the cost would have been $611.

There have been volumes written about pricing strategies of airlines of direct flights being more expensive versus ones with stops, just do a quick search on the internet and you'll find a bunch of info to explain it all.

 

[Harro10]

Yes, I get the basic premise of how this happens. Airlines do not set their pricing by cost but rather by demand and people are willing to pay more for non-stop flights than connecting flights. However, I still sometimes find the results odd.

There have been volumes written about pricing strategies of airlines of direct flights being more expensive versus ones with stops, just do a quick search on the internet and you'll find a bunch of info to explain it all.

 

[Mike]

Yes, I get the basic premise of how this happens. Airlines do not set their pricing by cost but rather by demand and people are willing to pay more for non-stop flights than connecting flights. However, I still sometimes find the results odd.

It gets a bit more complex than that, that's why there have been volumes written about it

 

[Harro10]

It gets very complex when you get into the routing and the algorithms but I have to keep it simple if I am going to explain it to myself.

 

[mstevens]

There have been volumes written about pricing strategies of airlines of direct flights being more expensive versus ones with stops, just do a quick search on the internet and you'll find a bunch of info to explain it all.

Understandable (or even just explicable) and odd are not mutually exclusive.