Originally Posted by
crnk
And I do realize how much you can sometimes save by using a CT outstation. I was helping a friend with fares to Spain last summer. Every major city was within a small range, but for some reason, we were able to get him a ticket out of HVN for something like $300 less than anything else.
If this involved US out of HVN, their pricing seems to be almost totally random. Some flights out of HVN are extraordinarily expensive ($597+ cheapest listed fare for HVN-PHL-ATL at the moment), some are amazingly cheap ($226+ to SEA/OAK/SNA/SMF/LAS). There's a bit of a Southwest effect (I guess they'd prefer to sell a ticket HVN-PHL-xxx than have WN transport the passenger from BDL or PVD), but otherwise it seems like they threw darts at a map and set prices accordingly. Unfortunately for me, my most frequent trip is ROC-HVN, for which the fare is $485+ at the moment (usually higher). Since this is leisure travel, at $485 it's easier either to fly to LGA and take MNRR, EWR and take Amtrak, or just drive the 370 miles. Flying takes almost the same time as driving this kind of route anyway; I just hate driving even more than I hate US...