Originally Posted by
jsloan
The question is, what price should it show for EWR-TXL when it is pricing it as part of EWR-TXL-FRA-EWR?
What it "should" show is a purely theoretical and irrelevant question, since the website doesn't actually show the true fare for that portion of the itinerary most of the time, despite appearances. And what it actually does show often bears no relation to the actual fare for that segment (or segments).
So the most sensible answer to OP's question is to forget about pricing for EWR-TXL, because that's not the way the fare actually works. In these circumstances, since OP is not looking, for example, to combine a P and W, it only makes sense to discuss pricing in the context of the full roundtrip fare, which as previously stated I would "expect" to be at least $7K within the 7 day window. Maybe this particular fare is a bit less than that, but my expectation generally for US to Germany within the 7 day window would be over $7K.