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Old 12-21-2005, 08:33 PM
NotInchoateHand1 NotInchoateHand1 is offline
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Default Re: Roundtrip ticket half the price of a one way ticket?

Well, they will sell your roundtrip ticket twice anyway (overbooking anyone?). In fact, they are depending on you not using the return portion of your ticket a percentage of the time. There are other reasons, but I forgot and I can't be bothered looking it up. Basically, it actually makes a lot of sense, one of the many standard counterintuitive business practices. Obviously, low-fare one-way airlines work on the opposite principle...
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