This is so ridiculous

[jenepel]

So tonight I've been looking up flights for the Costa Rica trip in November, just kind of a prelim shot at pricing, to see what I'm looking at. The airline industry truly makes no sense. In this particular case it's going to work in my favour, because taking a side trip through the US won't cost me more money than I would already be spending, but I still find it very very weird. I've come to terms with the pricing, kind of. Well, not come to terms, but I've accepted that I'm going to spend a lot of money on this wedding, and now I'm just seeing how I can get the best trip out of it that's possible.

Case in point:

Lon -> Costa Rica (Liberia) -> Lon (20th-25th) = between $1100-1300 depending on airline (and that's with like two flight changes too; not direct) Spending that much money for a five days trip (and double it when you add the hotel) REALLY does not appeal.

And yet when I go to the AA site and use their multi city thing, I can do this:

13th London -> Newark
16th Newark -> Atlanta
20th Atlanta -> CR
25th CR -> London

for only $1174.59!

WTF?

I'm not complaining...exactly. I'm just baffled.

So adinarj, what do you think of those dates?!

And basilm, what is the other site that you said had a multi trip function? I can't remember.

Comments

[basilm.livejournal.com]

ba

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I looked at that, and was like "what the frak kind of comment is that? Thanks Rach!"

...

Then I realised you meant British Airways.