Oh, I know you've been around a long time, I enjoy your writing. But you'd raised the question of why consumers think airlines are ripping them off, and I'm just saying to anyone else reading this why, to me at least, it isn't malicious, it's just how their pricing works. The one part I don't...
...understand, and would love to know the answer to, is why the one-way won't price on the "W" fare. Is it a conscious business decision on the part of UA not to offer that fare on a BOS-LHR purchase (or a wider suppression on some types of connections), or is it just a design flaw or a glitch?
My best guess is broken married segment logic in UA's systems.