Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
Not always true. It depends how the routing prices, and sometimes a ticket will price as an O/D including connections, and other times, as segments. I don't have any examples readily available, but you can be pretty sure that when, i.e., SFO/HNL is $400, and SFO/SEA/HNL is $600 (all in the same seat bucket), that the fare construction will be split by segment.
Yes, but I said "likely". In this case almost no one would buy SFO-SEA-HNL because it's both longer and more expensive.