Originally Posted by
jrl767
I often have afternoon meetings at company or client offices in El Segundo, so the fact that this prices as two separate segments doesn't actually bother me ... however, at the risk of derailing the thread, I'll add the proviso that they also dump the "same routing" SDC rule ... if one of those meetings gets cancelled the day before, I'd sure like to be able to SDC DCA-LAX-SEA to DCA-SEA (and the more extreme case, SEA-LAX-BWI to SEA-BWI -- or, even better, the afternoon SEA-DCA)
They do that because it's dollars to donuts people would buy cheap SEA-BWI/IAD fares and SDC to SEA-DCA, which is generally a more expensive market.
I miss co-terminal SDC. Which used to be a thing.