Originally Posted by
xliioper
They are technically called "Accompanied Travel" fares in the fare rules and are absolutely being more used frequently now.
:-) I’d argue about pedantry, but I’ve been known to insist that a direct flight does not mean a nonstop flight, so I suppose I’m to be hoist on my own petard.
You are, of course, correct about the fare rule in question.
Originally Posted by
xliioper
There have been a few posts on FT about them. AA loaded them on a number of routes out of CLT back in early March to a number of Florida cities and MSY.
Interesting. I wonder what the reasoning is there — if you’re going to create these fares, you’d think you’d put them on city pairs that are less likely to be used for family travel.
Originally Posted by
xliioper
There are still reasonably priced roundtrip fares on many of these routes, but they require a Saturday stay and mid-week trips will all price out as one-way fares in both directions.
UA has definitely been adding more APEX/RT fares lately, although the last time I mentioned it I got pushback.
Not
every discount fare has a RT requirement, but there are a lot of city pairs that do.
I agree with
narvik; I’m going to look at this as a discount for group purchases rather than a surcharge for individual purchases, and when I fly unaccompanied, I’m not going to sweat them.