Flight times and layovers are just two of the many considerations to factor into the total cost of a plane ticket.
Updated: 20 seconds agoThere are many considerations beyond the “base price” of an airline ticket that constitute the total cost of a journey. More importantly, there are many steps along the way where travelers simply throw up their hands and say, “That’s not worth it!”
One particular fare that I’ve been watching for a couple of months is Anchorage-Guatemala for $385 round-trip. That’s a fabulous fare to get to the capital of a Latin American country. United again came up with a decent fare: $524 round-trip. But it’s only available on one day, May 18, for a seven-day itinerary. The outbound flight has a tight connection in Denver and a long one in Houston . The return flight, in addition to a red-eye departure at 12:40 a.m., has a seven-hour layover in Houston and a four-hour layover in San Francisco.
Flexibility is important when you’re burning miles. If you can wait an extra week, the rate is just 10,000 miles each way for the red-eye Anchorage-Seattle flights on April 19. Coming back on a Sunday evening, travelers can choose a 10:15 p.m. flight, getting in at 12:48 a.m. The cost: 10,000 miles. But between 4:40 p.m. and 8:45 p.m., it’s much more: 20,000-30,000 miles one-way.
Between Anchorage and Atlanta, United has the cheapest fare, at $466 one-way . The outbound flight includes a 4:30 layover in Chicago. On the return flight, there’s a 12:38 layover at O’Hare. That’s ridiculous.
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