Originally Posted by
Kacee
This is one of the better examples I've seen of how irrational airline fare pricing can sometimes be.
it looks to me no different than any nonstop premium, with the added item that there is no way to get a nonstop LGA-EWR, so they add the extra connection.
Is it really any different, than say, BOS-EWR-PEK being cheaper than EWR-PEK (I didn’t check fares, so a totally made up example, but you get the point).