----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mueller" <dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 17:13 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] SFGate: The tickets airlines don't want you to buy > Directional fares (charging more to fly LAX-SFO than SFO-LAX) aren't the issue. A lot of the "abuse" of airfares is because buying a round trip is cheaper than a one way, and that buying a ticket between two cities with a connection in a hub is cheaper than flying from the hub city to one city. It's the non-sensible situation where buying buying tickets for two flights is cheaper than one. > Except for international flights and flights for kamainas (residents) of Hawaii, I haven't seen directional fares in years. David R