Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
> I'm flying to Washington DC in May to bury my head in the Duke Ellington
> manuscripts at the Smithsonian. I'm wondering whether there is any value
> in taking the cheapo flight from Stansted via Rekjavic with some airline
> I've never heard of, in the daytime on the Sunday but trying to get a
> one-way ticket back via BA/Lufthansa/usual suspects on the direct
> overnight flights to Heathrow.
STN-KEF-IAD on 3rd May
IAD-KEF-STN on 12 May
both on Play airlines £326
(not sure if that's a through ticket or not)
LGW-KEF-BWI on 4 May
BWI-KEF-LGW on 13 May
both on Icelandair £470
or same dates LGW-BOS-DCA and return on Jetblue £517
Nonstop LHR-IAD and IAD-LHR on 4/12 May on Delta £664
and many variations of the same.
IAD to LHR one way on 11 May on United $708
So a one way nonstop is almost the same price as a return. So halve the
price going via Iceland with a stop each way.
Prices from matrix.itasoftware.com and kiwi.com
(beware kiwi gluing together low cost airline fares, there's trouble if
things go wrong)
> As for silly pricing, I was going to do the usual Sunday daytime then
> Friday night overnight return, but I discovered these days there is a
> massive price hike on most airlines if you do that, and it's better to
> fly back on Saturday. Even cheaper to fly Saturday to Saturday, but that
> means a Sunday with nowt to do in DC and an extra hotel night.
That's the 'Saturday night away' rule.
> It's just an extremely IRRITATING load of nonsense, all of it.
Pre-US airline deregulation in 1978, prices were fixed to be 'reasonable'.
Trouble was, that's much more in real terms than you're paying today.
Theo
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