Originally Posted by
percysmith
Connection pricing happened for pre-pandemic too.
Actually connection pricing was cheaper pre-pandemic (eg ex-PRC now > HKG O/D).
I don't deny that. My point was that the seat map isn't indicative that everyone paid O/D pricing.
Here is an example:
On the same dates:
Some passengers are paying a premium to get off the plane in HKG as their destination. Many others are not terminating there.
If I wanted to go to HKG, I would fly to MNL and then do a nested MNL-HKG return and still save more than $2000 over the O/D pricing.
James