Originally Posted by
3Cforme
Sorry, avidflyer, but IMHO bigflyer was right to dismiss that explanation.
In one-way pricing, my observations are that with a:
- low outbound the default is low return, yielding the 60K pricing expected by the OP here;
- medium outbound will be defaulted to medium return;
- high outbound will be defaulted to high return.
Hence the imperative when one wants a true one-way ticket and is stuck with medium or high outbound, find a low return that fits the ticketing time parameters.
As for a suitable explanation of the OP's observation - regrets.
Yea I should have put a question mark at the end of that. I never tried to price a OW award but figured that the infamous calendar would likely hose you for the highest return just because they do not offer OW awards. Given how Med/High slanted that thing is it just seemed very plausible that they would rarely let you get away with a "LOW" when you are booking something they have said they do not support.