Originally Posted by
mtofell
I was looking at some mileage run/quick trip tickets and ran across this one from SAN>OGG and got to wondering how high can the fares get? Fwiw, note the HORRIBLE 6.5 hour overnight layover. What's that equate to? 3-4 hours of sleep? How/why would anyone ever opt for this?
1) A small subset of people just don't care and it doesn't affect their budget one way or the other.
2) Published fares (not referring to this quoted screenshot, but generally) can be like the sign on the hotel door - the "maximum." And lest we forget that some discounted contract fares may be based upon a discount on a certain fare bucket within a booking class.