Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
The price will be the same if you fully click through. It appears cheaper on the calendar view when searching MIA/FLL-LAS because there is probably a cheaper return segment to FLL that causes the overall price to be cheaper. When you search only from MIA, that option disappears.
So, the cheaper $1446 option would be MIA-LAS-FLL, the $1534 would be MIA-LAS-MIA.
As to the search results, aa.com will typically show you around 40 results or so, so when searching just MIA-LAS you will get 40 results for MIA-LAS. Searching MIA/FLL-LAS, you will get 20 results for MIA-LAS and 20 results for FLL-LAS (very generally speaking, you get the idea). So it's only common sense that some potential MIA-LAS search results will be left off when searching both MIA/FLL.
Why limit results to (about) 40? Wouldn't it be better to show as many as possible.... to give folks as many options as possible? I, for one, hate to take the (standard) short connection (50 min or so) flights. So I am usually looking for some "not so common" connections / routeings.