Let’s say for example I live in Los Angeles and a United airlines flight from LAX to JFK with a layover in DFW is $500 but that same flight from LAX to DFW is $600. How did I save $100 by adding an extra flight?
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outside of the usual ” they charge what they can get away with” the idea is that airlines want ot ensure their planes are as close to full as possible at all times as a plane that has ot make a trip from A to B at half capacity is potentially losing money.
but if they were ot instead go from A to B but make a stop at X where you get more ppl wanting to board allows you to sell tickets for the flight as ” going to B and ” going to X”
the people that intend to go for the latter will buy the flgiht and once they get there these seats are freed up ot take customers from X that also want ot go to B.
thru this whole process the airline managed ot potentially sell more tickets for that one flight than the planes has places and all it costed them was the inconvinience of making the trip take longer for the customers wanting the direct A-B path(whic hthey compensate by making the indirect flight cheaper).
TLDR: you get a discount for being willing to deal with the inconvinience while you pay full price for the “risk” the airline takes on ensuring your seat in a direct flight(in the event you no show and the airline cannot fill).
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