Originally Posted by
Kacee
Inside 7 day Advance Purchase? I'd expect at least seven grand RT.
The question is, what price should it show for EWR-TXL when it is pricing it as part of EWR-TXL-FRA-EWR?
My answer is, "not $1600." The best answer is probably "$6000," as it should assume Business on the return and price the entire roundtrip instead of trying to show one-way prices. Since that doesn't seem likely to happen, the next-best answer is probably $3000 -- the entire outbound fare component to FRA -- or $2800 or whatever you would get if you prorated the fare based on distance.
These threads come up every couple of weeks. They rarely came up under the old design -- at worst, you'd get a question about "why is EWR-TXL-EWR thousands of dollars more than EWR-TXL-FRA-EWR?" Sadly, displaying one-way prices instead of round-trips (à la Google Flights, Matrix, etc) is a time-honored deception within the airline industry. I'd argue that this "quarter-round-trip pricing" is particularly deceptive, but it doesn't look like UA is motivated to change it.
