Defecting from a CO hub to UA and *A
Mar 21, 2006 | 8:06 am
#16
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by KMHT FF
UA is not really cheaper than CO and I have found that it is often more expensive.
I pretty much cringe everytime I ask my company to book on UA, as the ticket is almost always more expensive than the CO non-stop, except this last time, but thats because I'm flying mid-week. In any case, UA is the "preferred" carrier for our company, as they negotiated a small discount for all tickets.
Mar 21, 2006 | 8:15 pm
#17
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by KMHT FF
UA is not really cheaper than CO and I have found that it is often more expensive.
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Mar 21, 2006 | 9:24 pm
#18
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Renard
I suspect that this is related to the fact that most any UA flight out of Houston connects at one of the hubs...you have to 'snag' the cheap fare bucket on both legs to get the cheap fare...but when flying the CO nonstop you only have to 'luck out' once and find one leg with a cheap fare bucket seat. Say you're going from iah to bos. On CO you'd go non-stop mostly likely...need to find one cheap fare bucket seat...but on UA you'd go iah-ord-bos and would need to snag the cheap fare bucket on iah-ord And ord-bos...a bit tougher often. (IF I understand the whole fare system correctly...which might be debatable )
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