BRETT SNYDER recently ran an online search for flights from Washington Reagan to Dallas-Fort Worth to San Francisco and then back to Washington. He found something strange. If he booked the three legs of the flight as separate one-ways with American Airlines, the total cost was $412.80. But if he wanted to book the whole multi-city itinerary together, American was charging $1,837.20.
It wasn’t just American. He tried another itinerary—Orlando to Minneapolis to Dallas to Orlando—with Delta. Booked in three transactions, it would cost $370.80. Booked in one fell swoop, it was $2,288.20, more than six times as much.
Mr Snyder, the author of the Cranky Flier blog, hasn’t been the only person to notice this price anomaly in recent days. Kevin Mitchell, the chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, wrote a letter to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice this month, alleging that “American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines may have...Continue reading
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