Originally Posted by
branston
I was booking a business class flight from CUR-MIA-DCA for early December which I was tracking on Google Flights. I checked and Google flights had the price at $621 so I went to aa.com to book it. When I searched for the same flights, the business class ticket came up as $871.89. This was not too surprising as Google probably doesn't update their prices as often as the airlines. For kicks, I went back to Google flights and clicked on the "Book with American" link which took me to aa.com where the price was $622.39! Both searches were for the same flights on the same day in the same cabin with the same number of passengers. Flights booked into I class and was ticketed at the lower price.
After booking the flight, the price on Google flights is now showing $867. Has anyone else seen instances of where the price going directly to aa.com was higher than can be achieved by going through a third party link to aa.com? I assume there was only 1 seat left in the I bucket, but then why didn't that price show when searching on aa.com?
Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
Yea, I've seen instances of this exact same thing here and there when searching using GF and aa.com. No idea why it happens.
I wonder whether you're perhaps seeing country-specific pricing on a one way ticket.
This happened to me a few years ago -- we were taking a trip to YUL and making arrangements for flights back to the U.S. I noticed the price was significantly cheaper booking a Biz class flight by using the google flights link to get to the pricing page at AA.com, as opposed to searching on AA.com directly. I had no problem booking the flight but had to call in later to make a change, and the agent became very flustered, saying something like she couldn't work with a Canadian issued ticket. She wanted to charge me several hundred dollars more -- I don't remember all the details, but she made it clear she thought we had gotten some sort of Canadian discount.
