A few days ago I wanted a one way flight from SYD to IAD, it was $1600. For fun I decided to see how much a round trip would cost: I bought it for $1100.
It's $500 cheaper to get a round-trip ticket than to fly one way from Sydney to Washington D.C.
This is the part I've never understood. I can see why they don't want to make it half the price (though this works just fine for discount airlines), but MORE? WTF?
Interestingly in Russia it's nothing like that. Round-ticket costs only slightly less than twice the price of a one way ticket (seems logical). Not sure, if this is good or bad, because I really don't understand the underlying logic behind this pricing policy of making one-way ticket twice as expensive as a one-way ticket.
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A few days ago I wanted a one way flight from SYD to IAD, it was $1600. For fun I decided to see how much a round trip would cost: I bought it for $1100.
It's $500 cheaper to get a round-trip ticket than to fly one way from Sydney to Washington D.C.
This is the part I've never understood. I can see why they don't want to make it half the price (though this works just fine for discount airlines), but MORE? WTF?
Interestingly in Russia it's nothing like that. Round-ticket costs only slightly less than twice the price of a one way ticket (seems logical). Not sure, if this is good or bad, because I really don't understand the underlying logic behind this pricing policy of making one-way ticket twice as expensive as a one-way ticket.