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Old May 30, 2025 | 6:02 am
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Originally Posted by jsloan
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.
I remember that thread well. The solution for the OP in that thread was to reverse his weekly flights so they originated in MCO (a Saturday night stay requirement was also at play here)..

My guess is that the reasoning is to hose their hub captive business travelers, while still offering low fares to families traveling to Florida.


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