<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by wannabe:
One thing that bothers me about AA.com (and maybe I'm imagining it) - if I search by schedule, a lot of the time it pulls up the exact same flights as the "fare" search, but at a higher price. And sometimes, if I've been searching by schedule, I swear it keeps offerring me only much higher prices than are available when I search by fare again.
What I WANT is for the website to give me the lowest fare available for a given selected schedule. If they want to offer me the option of flying in a higher fare class, that's fine, give me little check boxes so I can pick the fare class I want (YUP when other are paying, discount when I am).</font>
I have seen this happen several times. What I now do on aa.com is first search by fare to get a read on the lowest fares for the travel days I need, regardless of time of day. Then I search by schedule to figure out what flight times are available that will work for me. Then I go back and search by fare, asking for times around the flights I want.
I get a bunch of flights that are no where near the times I want, which hacks me off, but sometimes I will get those flight times I found earlier through search by schedule, and when that happens, the fare is often significantly lower.