I love to stop into out-of-the-way municipal airports for a little food court lunch
I told Orbitz.com I wanted to fly from "NYC" (the airport code that includes JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark) to Lebanon, NH, and Orbitz offered me a flight that went from Newark, to Pittsburgh, TO LAGUARDIA, to New Hampshire. With a layover in Pittsburgh.
Once I told Orbitz I wanted to leave from LaGuardia (whatever), it offered me a direct flight for $100 less. WTF?
Once I told Orbitz I wanted to leave from LaGuardia (whatever), it offered me a direct flight for $100 less. WTF?
posted by JenIsFamous at 3/26/2008 03:12:00 AM
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Is it surprising? Who is Orbitz's main customer?
A: The airlines who founded it. Their first allegiance will be to those firms, not to Jen.
When I search for fares, I use ITA software's web site. (Click "Log in as guest".) The interface is a bit more complicated than others, but it has 3x the usefulness. (Note that ITA software won't actually sell you the tickets. You have to go to the airline's web site to do that. They just let you search for fares.)
I wonder if the Pittsburgh airport paid Orbitz to purposely gie people long unecessary layovers there so that they'll have to spend 15 hours sitting in the airport T.G.I. Fridays drinking poorly made frozen mudslides.
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