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May 1, 2024 | 10:20 am

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Originally Posted by cjglick

Apologies, seems like it may be more like 200 to 300% depending on the route. Two examples:

ORD-MSP - 7/11/24-7/12/24
UA $194 round trip direct
DL $183 round trip direct
AA Concur $421 round trip direct
AA.com $127 round trip direct
Confirmed the same flight times for both AA Flights and roughly the same for the UA and DL departures

ORD-NYC 7/17-7/19/24
UA $282 rt direct
DL $270.30 rt direct
AA Concur $528.4 rt direct
AA.com $225 rt direct

I'm not surprised given how far in advance you're booking. AA pulled the lowest fares from CTAs who don't use NDC. I expect the fares will start to equalize ~2 weeks out. Whenever I search for flights and the ones I want are out of policy, I wait a few days or weeks and try again. Inevitably, the others go up or the ones I want come down.

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