Originally Posted by
Kacee
That's not how airlines price fares. Fares have nothing to do with distance.
From SFO? I would be surprised, unless they were matching one of the SQ discount fares briefly.
From IAD. IIRC, the outbound took me via SFO and the return via LAX. For whatever reason, it wouldn't price with the nonstop IAD-NRT segment (pushed it up over $5k).