Originally Posted by
grahampros
It's not weird at all actually. If you look at PVR-ATL one way ( forget Boston) on the date it prices at $985 with no available first class for the nonstop. Means they are expecting very heavy well priced loads on the segment so are not opening up the inventory. They are charging less to get you to ATL taking a connection over DTW or MSP
This is not what you'd call married segment logic it's called O&D revenue management. Married segment logic is just the the programming around maximizing network revenue.
That's not the point at all.
OP understands what married segment logic is (i.e. if Delta wants to reserve its seats on the PVR-ATL flight for higher paying O&D passengers rather than connecting passengers like PVR-ATL-BOS).
That's not in play here.
If OP searches PVR-BOS
one-way on January 3, 2015, OP
is offered routings via ATL.
However, if OP does a round trip search with the outbound on December 25, and trying to choose the same return flights as he found for 1/3/15 in the one-way search, Delta.com doesn't offer those flights as an option at any price. OP can't force it by doing a search by schedule, multi-city search, etc...
I think OP used the wrong language in the subject to describe this. I don't think it's married segment logic at issue here... just a dumb website.