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Apr 21, 2017, 10:25 am

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tods27

Join Date: Jan 2003

Location: DEN

Programs: UA 1P-1MM, Marriott LT Titanium

Posts: 3,930

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Originally Posted by tcp1

I keep hearing this on FT, but in my experience of 4 years flying weekly from IAD-DEN and back it just isn't the case.

RT IAD-DEN 6/19-6/25, UA980, UA344: $742.40
Same flights but one ways: $764.40

Not huge, but this has been my consistent experience and sometimes the differential is greater. If I go out later in the day the prices match. So can you often find one way domestic for the same price as RT? Yes. But "extremely rare" for them to be priced on RT? I wouldn't say that.

I think that the perception of everything being priced one-way comes from the way that UA.com shows the pricing on each leg. I was looking at flights to HI for November and when I looked at doing one-way with miles and one-way paid, the one-way paid was more than a round trip flight.

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