Riddle me this, Batman!

[cyrano]

So I just got through planning some non-traditional travel, involving flights that were not round trip. By happy coincidence, I discovered that plotting each leg one at a time as opposed to 'multi-stop' meant my ticket price reduced by fifty percent on every single leg.
Twice the cost for planning them all at once.

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[evilmagnus]

Let me tell you of the time it was cheaper for me to buy another ticket on a different airline than change an existing ticket. Not because the segments I wanted were any more expensive - just from the stupid fees.

So a seat went empty that could have been re-sold by the airline, and they lost the opportunity to get more money from me.

I have no sympathy for the domestic US carriers.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

That's the weird thing. Travelocity wasn't going to make me stick with a single airline through all three legs. They were weighing each segment individually.