Thursday, September 18, 2008

Airway Robbery

Can someone please explain the airline pricing process to me. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand it.

1. A round-trip ticket from Frankfurt, Germany to Cincinnati, Ohio (both major Delta hubs) will run you $1,300 this year.
2. A multi-city trip including Frankfurt to Ohio, Ohio to the Washington, D.C. area then from Washington back to Frankfurt will cost a mere $1,084 when purchased through Delta.

I don't get it. How is it that the more I fly...the less I pay? The less I fly, the more I pay? I hate the airline industry.

I'm hoping that prices drop below the $1,000 mark. And when they do, I'm pouncing on my ticket home for the holidays.

1 comment:

1244 said...

Hey Pechvogel,

The airlines are run by insane clowns. Nothing else explains the Byzantine complexity of the rate structures. I can't wait until the cost of Sprit is so high that air travel will only be for the wealthy.

Nice to see a blog from another 'mercan in Germany. I've been here almost 20 years now. Always seems like there's too much to see and do to go home.

Later