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Old Dec 16, 2008 | 12:39 pm
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brasov02
 
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Originally Posted by Benny8444
Are all of the flights on UA metal? sometimes if there are mulitple airlines involved the fares can be lower.

The only other thing i can think of is that those sites buy the tickets way in advance and re sell them.
To be specific, I can get a direct United fare on a multiple search site from PDX to LHR for $955 all in while the best I seem to be able to do for the same dates in September next year on the United site itself is nearly $200 over that.
But I guess those fares could change tomorrow or in an hour. But it just doesn't seem to make much sense.
But then again, we're talking about airlines...
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