[Mifnet 🚀 72580] Re: More to Fly Solo?

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:25:57 -0700 

 keady - of course they used to be able to differentiate based on free luggage, 
but, alas.........
    On Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 12:11:16 PM PDT, David Wardell via Mifnet 
<[email protected]> wrote:   

 
Quite true, however air transportation differs from groceries—or at least many 
people believe it should.

  

I’ve observed in these pages that one reason (perhaps the principal reason) air 
travel customers routinely look for whatever is cheapest price because they are 
incapable of differentiating on anything other than price when sellers of air 
travel can’t (or won’t) say what the true price should be.

  

If vendors move the price with seemingly endless (and mindless) caprice, what 
is the customer’s alternative?

  

Hence, the market is doomed to a race to the bottom.

  

Or so it seems to me.

  

Old Man Wardell

  

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From: Tom Ronell via Mifnet <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 3:32 AM
To: ERIC Smith via Mifnet <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Ronell <[email protected]>
Subject: [Mifnet 🚀 72575] Re: More to Fly Solo?

  



So what? How often is the unit price lower when you purchase two of something 
at the grocery store? 

From: ERIC Smith via Mifnet <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: ERIC Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Jun 4, 2025 00:35:56
Subject: [Mifnet 🚀 72571] More to Fly Solo?


--Eric 

  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/31/solo-airfare-increase-thrifty-traveler/
 

  

  

Flight deal experts spot a surprise upcharge: Flying solo

Airlines appear to be charging individual passengers more than groups for seats 
on identical flights. But is it new? 

  

  

Deciphering airfares often feels like a puzzle, and travel experts have 
revealed a new layer: airlines appear to be charging individual passengers more 
than groups for seats on identical flights. 

  

This week, Thrifty Traveler executive editor Kyle Potter was searching for 
airfare for a trip with his wife when he noticed something unusual. His Delta 
Air Lines airfare for one person was $206, but the price for two was $154 each. 
He assumed it was a glitch, or a mistake on his part. He checked his dates and 
the fare type. The same results appeared. 

  

“It became clear after double checking and rerunning the search several times 
that Delta was charging me more because I was searching for just one passenger 
rather than two,” Potter said. 

  

Potter’s team at Thrifty Traveler, a travel deal and news site, looked at 
hundreds of fares this week and concluded that Delta, United Airlines and 
American Airlines were listing higher ticket prices on some routes for solo 
passengers than for a pair or group fares. They published their findings 
Thursday. 

  

In one example, they found that a one-person fare from Chicago-O’Hare to 
Peoria, Ill., on United was $269, while the price dropped to $181 per person 
when booked for two or more passengers. 

  

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