Since Alaska announced service to Denver and subsequently offered $198 RT, I thought I would see if it were cheaper to fly AS SEA-DEN and then Great Lakes DEN-HYS (My Grandma lives near Hays). Service from DEN-HYS is operated by GL but is codeshared to Frontier and to UA. I was pricing June 1-4.

What surprised me is the following:

Travelocity lists fares for DEN-HYS as United or as Great Lakes, and the GL flights are cheaper.

Expedia listed only UA fares, all different UA fares from Travelocity.

Orbitz lists NO fares, it cannot find any flights DEN-HYS on UA, F9 or GL after January, except to route me DEN-MCI-HYS.

Hotwire is expensive; $700.

Frontier will not sell DEN-HYS but will sell SEA-DEN-HYS; I guess their codeshare agreement prohibits them from selling DEN-HYS.

In the end the cheapest way for SEA-DEN-HYS on June 1, returning 6/4, was SEA-DEN on AS and DEN-HYS on GL booked through Travelocity, $400 total. But I cannot figure out the differences between travelocity and expedia on this one, or why GL fares show up on Travelocity and no where else.

[This message has been edited by whlinder (edited 01-10-2002).]

Because Travelocity is based off Sabre and Expedia is based off Worldspan.

probably fares cheaper with GL code because they don't have to pay for any miles with UA/other commission to them.

JL