Originally Posted by
Calchas
Prices on TATL are almost flat UK wide, with a few quirks from time to time. Hence Belfast is usually twice the price of Dublin.
Oneworld joint venture no longer seems to price direct vs connecting differently, at least until we get close to departure (< 2 weeks) and booking codes start to fill up.
That is exactly my point, so the previous analysis of indirect being of less 'value' (at least from the perspective of the AA/BA JBV) seems flawed as they themselves don't exercise this type of price differentiation. It seems their differentiation is based purely on the market in which the ticket is being sold and not on the direct vs indirect nature of the itinerary being sold.
I am not a legal expert so I am not sure what this would mean if something did end up going to court, but wouldn't it make it difficult for an airline to claim that an indirect itinerary is of less value than a direct one and to therefore use the direct vs indirect differentiation as a basis for levying a higher price to the customer who skips their last leg?