Point to point fare
Apr 29, 2008 | 3:15 am
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Point to point fare
Hi,
What is a point to point fare? Can someone explain please. Say, I reach destination A on day 1 and my connecting flight is on day 2, with a point to point fare can I stop over in destination A for the night?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Kommineni
What is a point to point fare? Can someone explain please. Say, I reach destination A on day 1 and my connecting flight is on day 2, with a point to point fare can I stop over in destination A for the night?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Kommineni
Apr 29, 2008 | 5:42 am
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Welcome to FlyerTalk Kommineni !
As this really has nothing to do with Budget Travel, I'm moving your thread to TravelBuzz!
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As this really has nothing to do with Budget Travel, I'm moving your thread to TravelBuzz!
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Apr 29, 2008 | 7:02 am
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A point-to-point fare is one-way between 2 cities, but does not have to be non-stop or direct. In your example you are traveling 1-A-2 and it is the fare from city 1 to 2. The fare from city 1 to A and A to 2 is irrelevant (and may be higher or lower than your fare). Stopovers may or may not be allowed -- this varies with the specific fare, and has nothing to do with being point-to-point (generally a stopover is not allowed, a 2nd point-to-point fare is used instead).
Most people do not buy point-to-point fares -- they buy round trip fares. But any trip can be constructed from a series of point-to-point fares. One reason to do this is because fares vary by point of origin. E.g. JFK-LHR-JFK as a roundtrip fare will be different than JFK-LHR at point to point fare, which in turn is different from LHR-JFK. Finding the lowest fare is quite complex.
Lots of other fare types exist. Often the metric for deciding whether a fare is good is comparing it to the point-to-point fare for the same trip, hence the frequent mention of this fare type.
Most people do not buy point-to-point fares -- they buy round trip fares. But any trip can be constructed from a series of point-to-point fares. One reason to do this is because fares vary by point of origin. E.g. JFK-LHR-JFK as a roundtrip fare will be different than JFK-LHR at point to point fare, which in turn is different from LHR-JFK. Finding the lowest fare is quite complex.
Lots of other fare types exist. Often the metric for deciding whether a fare is good is comparing it to the point-to-point fare for the same trip, hence the frequent mention of this fare type.