Now I’m pretty familiar to airlines. I’m traveling frequently, but there are also a few airlines out there that are customers of ours. And apart from that, I’ve visited one or two GDSs as well in the last few years. So I think I can say I’m familiar a little bit to the way airlines work, at least when it comes to ticketing. Everytime I come acros one of those strange reasonings of either one of the GDCs or the airline itself, again, I’m amazed.
This time it’s a ticket to Milan Malpensa. I need a ticket to Milan on the 21st of June and I’m probably using different means to getting back. This measn I only need a single ticket. At first I was searching for a return ticket as well, because I hadn’t thought of taking the car back.
Now the single ticket from Amterdam (AMS) to Milan Malpensa (MXP) with KLM is (through the KLM website) only available as a business class ticket, which would cost me around €1200,=.
Getting the same ticket going to MXP on the 21st of June, but flying back on the 28th (actually, I’ll not be flying back, but let’s just assume I do, to get a return ticket). is available for €200,=. In other words: a return ticket is way cheaper than a single ticket!
I guess I have to go through my travel agent again, to get me a ticket or so…
