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Old Aug 21, 2012 | 7:59 am
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Just a theory....

But if you do a same day turn, you naturally have far fewer (roughly half) the choices of flights. So that limits the probability of finding low fare classes by default. And thus you pay more. Maybe there is no conspiracy.....
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