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Old Feb 9, 2023 | 5:09 pm
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Originally Posted by mfirst
nomad420
What planet? Domestic USA.... I have been doing a lot of MSY/DEN/LAS/Hawaii segments and due to the competition in these markets, some of these flights are less than $100.....cost me more to uber to the airports.... I just got a MSY-DEN one-way at the end of the month... 99$ I had a OGG-SFO, last minute flight that was less than 200 one way.....

-m
I fly mostly in and out of Hawaii on business and having been doing this for literally decades but yes with the somewhat recent competition on SOME of the routes in and out of Hawaii the pricing has been stable. However, now post pandemic my international travel has recently picked back up and as you can see from many of the above posts many if not most (certainly where I need to go) the pricing has beyond question gone through the roof. Plenty of competition exists on these routes and yet we still see this kind of pricing which I might add is not entirely unique to UA. $11K Polaris pricing is not uncommon any more on TPACs and TATLs. Will they hold? Well that's anyone's guess.
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