Originally Posted by
Kacee
It's not crazy. Looking at a single set of flights says absolutely nothing about an airline's overall pricing strategy. At a micro-level, the price of each flight is determined primarily by available inventory on that specific flight. It is simply a mistake to draw broad conclusions about "competitiveness" on that basis. This is particularly true when you're looking at a connecting itinerary, since demand for flights in or out of the connection point can dramatically impact the price of the throughfare.
I agree that you can't draw conclusions from one specific flight. However, BOS-SAN has multiple connection opportunites through EWR, ORD, IAD, DEN, IAH and even SFO. I suppose you could add LAX, too, if the timing is perfect. That's six or seven potential routings. Is UA is selling out F on all of those connection possibilities? If so, we can all forget about the TOD opportunities, etc.