Jay Honeck wrote:

Here's a mystery that I just cannot answer:

To fly to Las Vegas from Chicago costs $99.00. (For example.)

To fly to Cedar Rapids from Chicago costs $300.


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There must be something else in play here -- anyone know?

The only way to understand airline ticket pricing is to think about it in
terms of how much a person needing to go to destination X will pay vs. how
many competing airlines go there.

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Frank....H