My point is that many airlines are eliminating roundtrip fares and = replacing them with direction fares that you combine on a half roundtrip basis to = get your total airfare. They are finally wising up to what the market = wants. For example between Vancouver and Calgary with Air Canada there is no = such thing as a roundtrip fare anymore. You pick your outbound fare, you = pick your inbound fare and that's your roundtrip fare. This is in direct response to Westjet. Mark -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of = David Mueller Sent: April 7, 2004 5:14 PM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 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. --- David Mueller / MRY dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx http://www.quanterium.com --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:20:14 From: mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: >Most airlines have revised their pricing models and are not offering=20 >directional fares in order to be competative with the likes of=20 >Southwest, Jetblue and Airtran so I don't know why this is even an=20 >issue. > >Mark > >Quoting David Mueller <dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:45:37, damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >Another reason to fly Southwest - they don't care if you do this. >> >> Probably has something to do with the way airlines like Southwest,=20 >> JetBlue, and AirTran price their fares. Pretty much everything on=20 >> JetBlue and AirTran (not as sure about Southwest) is based on one way = >> fares, so it costs more to purchase a round trip than a one way. >> >> --- >> David Mueller / MRY >> dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx >> http://www.quanterium.com >> >