Originally Posted by
evanston45
That's what I thought, but I called today and was told that they can't fare a ticket iad-ath, but can do ath-iad. Doesn't make sense to me either, but the representative says it happens all the time. I got *A from iad for 57,000 business class and return on A380 via dxb first class for $2800. Doubt even if they could do RT it would be cheaper than this, but maybe EK is not what it used to be?
Maybe some new restriction against end on end ticketing in the markets (cant string together 2 separate fares)?
I did notice the one way price is higher than 1/2 the RT price but not by a significant amount. I can tell you over on the Alaska Airlines forum someone was trying to add infant on to one way SFO-DXB-CDG award booking at 10% of the adult cash fare. The Adult cash fare one way in First class was $23,000 USD due to needing to price as 2 separate one way journeys since there was not a through fare filed.