Originally Posted by
flyingmusicianlax
OP, part of your problem may be the regional jet segment. Since there's less capacity on a ERJ, the lower bucket fares sell out faster. Then, UA.com prices out the itinerary according to the lowest fare bucket available in all segments.
I know all that about segment availability vs. origin-destination availability. I am not trying to book separate tickets. This is all on one ticket, one fare class, and booking code. It's just that searching in different ways yields different results, and that should not be happening.
My title may be misleading, sorry about that, I should have said "vs. multiple destination" and not "vs. segment by segment" as I am not trying to book it on different tickets, but one ticket using multiple destination search vs. regular round trip or open-jaw search.