How do airfare search engines work? They make no sense to me.

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Sitting here booking a flight. Finding a Lufthansa flight, but it’s apparently much cheaper through the United website. Finding a multi-city flight on Google Flights, but other search engines will find you completely different flights, and completely different prices for those same flights.

How tf do this market, these engines, and this pricing work? Extremely confusing, and seems to have gotten worse over time.

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Another reason is that airlines try to fish in other airlines’ ponds. Example given: I flew KLM from Germany via Amsterdam to South Africa. If I had just booked AMS – CPT I would have paid more than I spent on my actual flight DUS – AMS – CPT. (My hometown is appr. the same distance from AMS and DUS).

KLM simply wanted me to fly with them and not with Lufthansa.

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