From: <damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:23 PM <snip> > I looked at several different city pairs. I found that it was possible to have > a connecting flight that is cheaper than a non-stop. Correct. I wanted to see if it was still possible to fly from Columbus OH to Detroit and back in a BAE146 or relative thereof. When I asked a routing service to show me flights leaving CMH on Saturday and returning from DTW on Sunday, the cheapest fares were for routings I couldn't believe. They were for three or four legs taking more than six hours and touching airports thousands of miles away. These fares were less than half the non-stop 55 minute trips. (I didn't find any of the mini-jumbos still flying). > Why? My feeling is that the airline wants to get that last seat filled (these were all > discounted fares) and if they have to fly a passenger out of his way to do it, they will. > Actually, this is a win-win situation. The passenger gets a cheaper flight and > the airline gets addtional revenue. I don't think that explains it. It's just nuts. Actually it may be rotten computer programming. I have a map program that tries to find routes from place to place. When I ask it to find the way from my apartment to an intersection down a diagonal street that's right outside my door, it tells me to take the other two sides of the right triangle. Gerry http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://members.fortunecity.com/gfoley/egypt/egypt.html