Originally Posted by
Notagain
Looking at Nelson to Manchester one way on 2 October, fare is just on $2800!
Go to Auckland and fare is just on $1300!
How can they justify a $1500 fare for the hour and a half flight from Nelson?
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it's easy to justify, when you look at nelson to Auckland, the lowest fare class is Q on 1 or 2 flights, and H most others. On CX it would be K at the minimum
so when you price NSN-AKL-HKG-MAN it keeps going up until it can price in the domestic sector in which case you go from the cheapest fares (e.g. N class for 1048 + tax) to much more expensive classes
through in married segments, on the NZ domestic flights the cheapest is an M class (3rd most expensive) on NZ so your CX ticket will go through the roof. This is where buying tickets separately makes much more sense