November 16, 20232 yr 15 hours ago, PeterRS said: Since you do not understand the airline business, better you do not comment on it. sometimes I'm under impression airlines don't understand that themselves
November 17, 20232 yr On 11/16/2023 at 4:19 AM, vinapu said: sometimes I'm under impression airlines don't understand that themselves Indeed not. I have just been offered, and booked, a cheap BA fare, return Business to NY. I order to get this, I have to start in Frankfurt, fly BA to NY, and back, then fly BA to Frankfurt. This saves £1,500 on the BA business fare London/NY/London. Makes no sense to me!
November 17, 20232 yr Author 5 hours ago, Keithambrose said: Indeed not. I have just been offered, and booked, a cheap BA fare, return Business to NY. I order to get this, I have to start in Frankfurt, fly BA to NY, and back, then fly BA to Frankfurt. This saves £1,500 on the BA business fare London/NY/London. Makes no sense to me! But as was discussed some weeks ago, this has always been the case with a number of airlines, especially BA. When it was started it was something to do with feeding passengers into long haul services and away from their national airlines. But I cannot believe this is the reason for its being continued today. The Japanese airlines regularly did this back in the 1980s and 1990s. Hong Kong to JFK via Tokyo return was often 40% or more cheaper than just Tokyo to JFK in all classes. And in those days you could tear up the HKG/NRT coupons without that affecting the rest of the flight - which of course one can not do today.
November 17, 20232 yr I believe this is mainly done to compete with those airlines providing non-stop service from those cities
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