Originally Posted by
dval44
I did this for OGG-DEN-ABQ, and multi-city came out much lower, even though it was a 3-hour connection on the exact same itinerary.
The numbers in first class were something like:
OGG-ABQ via DEN $1,400
OGG-DEN + DEN - ABQ (same exact flights and itinerary) $777
Was flabbergasted
i always check multi city as well. Not just because of pricing like this (where the multi-city search prices are likely an error that isn’t verifying married segment availability), but also because UA.com also inexplicably often doesn’t show what are standard connections through typical and not out of the way hubs on standard point to point searches.
The only way to truly verify you are getting all the possible options are to either do the multi-city searches via reasonable connecting hubs on UA.com or to use Google Flights or an OTA, where these reasonable options do tend to show up properly.