Why does it cost twice more to fly from A to B than from A to C even though I have a layover in B?
I want to fly from Grand Rapids, MI to Orlando, FL. The flight has a layover in Memphis. The flight coast $224. But, if I want to fly from GRR to Memphis ONLY, it cost $504. Why is that?
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Orlando is a city where lots of leisure travelers fly to. Leisure travelers are more price sensitive. Also Orlando has a lot of discount airlines flying there. Memphis is controlled by Delta and does not have many discount airlines there. Because of that, ticket prices are higher.
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All sorts of reasons. At root, there is no logic and it depends more on market conditions - as potatochip says, the fact that Orlando has more leisure travellers means more travellers there want cheap tickets and are not willing to pay if they can't afford it - they just go somewhere else - while business travellers HAVE to go where they need to go and can be made to pay up. So competition forces prices down to leisure destinations. Distance ends up having little to do with it. Add to that, most of the costs of a flight are to do with take-off and landing. We get a bit of the same phenomenon here in the UK with train tickets.
