American airlines have introduced new rules, ignorance of which can be costly
The three largest airlines in the United States are: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines и United Airlines — changed the price of tickets, which include flights to several cities. Thus, passengers must pay hundreds of extra dollars per ticket.
Most customers have noticed that they do not overpay when they purchase tickets for individual flights.
For example, a passenger flying one way from New Orleans to Los Angeles with a connection in Dallas could pay $289. But when buying a ticket from New Orleans to Dallas, the passenger will pay $79, and from Dallas to Los Angeles - $94. This way you can save $116.
Sometimes the differences can be striking.
For example, take a trip in mid-May from Orlando to Detroit, and then two days later to New York and two days ago to Orlando.
Delta Air Lines wants a total of $ 282,30 for three separate one-way tickets. But if you book one ticket on a route like passengers are used to doing, they will charge you $ 2174.70 for exactly the same flights.
A similar search on American Airlines for travel on the Miami-Chicago-San Francisco route and back returned similar results. Booking three one-way trips, a passenger will pay $664,30. But if you book one ticket, you will be charged $1064.70.
To stop this practice, Delta and United have blocked individual non-refundable tickets. The airline website automatically offers more expensive, fully refundable tickets and no other option.
Many passengers are not aware of the innovations and may overpay hundreds of dollars for a transfer ticket.
As a result of the simultaneous adoption of new pricing rules by three US airlines, the Business Travel Coalition accused them of illegally coordinating this “complex and complex scheme.” A group of opponents of such schemes approached the Department of Justice with a proposal to investigate possible collusion between airlines.
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