Originally Posted by
limey1K
They aren't going to sell (m)any seats at those prices but I would have paid $10K today. Instead, I'll book a much cheaper fare on UA to somewhere else in the EU and take a short hop on LH or someone else or maybe even look at BA direct to LHR and connect on from there? Good luck if they can get people to pay $18K to MUC three weeks out with a bunch of seats open.
There are cheaper roundtrip Biz fares available, but they require Saturday night or 7 day minimum stays. Your trip does not meet those min stay requirements and is getting priced as one-way fares both ways. These roundtrip fares start at $11.6K roundtrip for close-in bookings, and there are 28 day advance purchase roundtrip fares in the $8K range. The 8 in the 4th posistion of fare basis code below indicates 28 day advance purchase requirement, and the 7 in 5th position indicates the 7 day min-stay requirement. Fares for mid-week travel dates (X in 3rd position of fare basis code) are slightly cheaper than fares for days around weekends (W in 3rd position of fare basis code). There are slightly cheaper roundtrip D fares with a 50 day advance purchase requirement (these will have a 5 in the 4th position of fare basis code). Bookings for roundtrips out near the end of March qualify for the 50 day advance purchase fares which start at $7,770 roundtrip for midweek travel.
