Korean Job Discussion Forums

[thiophene]

WHY?! I understand if it's slightly under a round trip fare but I'm looking at some deals and they're twice as much. one way costs $1700 and rt costs $1000. What am imissing here? can I buy the rt and just use the first half?

[soviet_man]

Because of yield management.

eg. you may have stumbled upon a discounted seat in one direction and a full fare seat on the other direction.

As flights book up, the airline computer sells seats for progressively higher prices.

If flights are not booking well, the computer dumps seats/capacity at lower prices.

Often times in places like Korea, it is entirely cheaper to buy return tickets, use it for 1 way, then throw it out, because of this quirk.

[huffdaddy]

[thiophene]

omg, i feel like i've in the dark for so long...i'm a gettin ideas...

thanks guys.