That's probably the most common example for domestic travel. Another is when you have a credit card or other award program that will buy you a ticket "on any flight on any airline." These sometimes but not always are done on consolidator fares to cut the cost down a bit to the award program.

For int'l travel, there are other cases where consolidator fares are used:

- Package tours from a travel agent that include both airfare and hotel.

- Airfare booked in conjunction with a cruise, especially where it's a one-way cruise (for example, someone near LAX cruises from Miami - Rome, so they need an LAX-MIA and FCO-LAX air ticket. These would be very expensive if purchased at the published one-way fares, so the airlines cut a deal with the cruise industry to make them reasonably-priced for that special situation).

- Stand-alone consolidator tickets sold openly to the public. These are what you're seeing when you open your Sunday newspaper's travel section and see all of those tiny display ads that have things like "Fly to India for $600!!!" This last example is really the only time that someone from the general public can buy consolidator tickets by themselves without needing any special membership in a group or in conjunction with other travel. But they really don't exist for the domestic US market.