Airlines use all kinds of methods to price discriminate, to get each passenger to pay as much as possible for their ticket. That largely comes in the form of trying to determine who is a business traveler and who is a leisure traveler.
For example, there were recently headlines about how airlines increasingly have different pricing for solo travelers vs. groups, which is a fairly new practice. Well, here’s another new practice… or perhaps just the return of an old one.
However, Thrifty Traveler reports that it seems that airlines are bringing back a practice that was popular decades ago, whereby one-way domestic fares are often significantly more expensive than roundtrip fares. Based on their sample of 2,000 flights across multiple airlines:
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
