I think i remember learning about a law like that in high school history. It goes way back to the late 1800s, it was some anti-trust thing. I think the pricing is based on whenever you buy it. So if you buy a ticket NYC-PHL a ticket purchased at the same exact time can't be cheaper for going NYC-WAS. When it comes to train travel it would make no sense to price NYC-PHL more than NYC-WAS.
On airlines it does make sense, lets say LGA-ORD is selling quickly, there isn't a lot of competition (this is fictional) the ticket will go for more than LGA-SFO that is almost empty.
Originally Posted by
the_traveler
I know it's international, but I recently saw an ad with an airfare from BOS-SFO for something like (not the exact fare) $154 O/W, while a flight (
on the same airline) from BOS-YUL was something like $159 O/W
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$5 more than going trans-con!
That doesn't make sense!