Why is a flight so cheap, but then again so expensive?

Sometimes you can fly from Düsseldorf to Poland for €20. But if you then want to fly from Düsseldorf to Leipzig/Halle, it costs €500 directly … Why? I mean, it's in the same country, so shouldn't the flight from Düsseldorf to Leipzig/Halle be cheaper, or shouldn't the flight from Düsseldorf to Poland be more expensive?

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jurebu
14 years ago

Aircraft are divided into booking and seating classes. The price is thus cheaper, as the seat class surcharge is low in the lowest seat class or is 0. The seat-class allowance rises per seating class. For short distances less than for long distances…. For example + 15 €, + 30 €, + 60 €, + 150 € etc. The more fully booked one machine is, the higher the seat class surcharge. The late booker pays for what the early booker saves. It is completely uninteresting whether it is the same country, the same machine, row, etc. It’s always about the seating class specified with letters.

tobsen2010
14 years ago

So first you should make sure it’s the same airline. This is partly due to the start & landing fees,
you might have looked at different days. Weekend flights are often much more expensive than flights a week.
Also, the price class hangs to the people who book the flights, i.e. if too few people book the flight it can be that the airline will cost the route to get enough money through the tickets they sell.

FataMorgana2010
14 years ago

This would be the case if a flight price were dependent on how far one flies and on the costs per passenger. However, it is not expected that if an aircraft on one line is always loaded to about 80% and thus the costs are already covered, then it is cheaper for the flight line to sell the last 20% of the places for Appel and’n Ei when they are empty. It only has to make sure that the 80% does not completely switch to the cheap tickets, but because these are often business people, e.g. bookable tickets or want to travel in the short term is not a problem. On a popular route almost no seats remain empty, as it is cheaper to stay with the expensive tickets. Besides, there is always only a certain quota of cheaper places per flight – if they are gone, you have to pay more again.

Alexandra2704
14 years ago

The profitability of a flight depends on the cost of the tickets. If the flight is not booked, i.e. empty spaces are available, they will lower the tickets and the aircraft will be suspended. Spaces cost the airline money. Not much money.

geog37
14 years ago

fata morgana and jurebu I agree and add that if someone cancels his flight then becomes free in the system of the place, and if one has luck the one is sold in a cheap tariff, so one must be in the pc all the time and always ask or equal in the travel agency where one with this work is written all day!!!

costacalida
14 years ago

No, there are far more people from Düsseldorf to Leipzig than to Poland.The airlines are striving to get their planes full, so they prefer to sell cheap places than to have to fly with half occupation.

MeisterGlanz
14 years ago

The normal price is 500€. If they still have residual tickets, they’d rather get out of the plane than not flying completely. Better almost no profit than no one.

noah1989
14 years ago

Leipzig/Halle Airports should be significantly higher than that of a Polish airfield.