Originally Posted by
Kacee
Except you fly about 830 miles to get from LGA to EWR. That actually makes sense to you? How interesting.
lots of people on this board would love that😀. I’ve certainly done longer mileage runs than 800 miles out of the way.
The OP was wondering why they couldn’t get the same fare on the nonstop from EWR. And my point was it’s essentially the same as any non-hub-international itinerary vs. hub-international - the latter is often more expensive - sometimes significantly so. LGa-CLE-EWR certainly is farther than normal, but I’d think the only closer way to do it out of LGA is to go via IAD (or take the flight ORD-PEK), given there’s no LGA-EWR flights. But those lower fares may not have been available.
I’ll also say I’ve done stuff like CVG-IAH-YYZ before, not for price reasons, but because I needed to get out the next morning last minute, and the only seat UA would even sell out of CVG that morning was a single F class seat on that CVG-IAH flight (and got it as a saver award, to boot). So I flew 870 miles south even though I was really going NE, and to boot, the IAH-YYZ segment basically overflies CVG directly.