Illogical Captain, totally illogical...

Hi Foxbat - I totally agree with you. 

This summer I went to the US with a friend from Glasgow and we found a deal for the 7 flights involved for about £600.  It meant going from Glasgow via Amsterdam so I thought I could have a few days in Glasgow on the way out and then,on the way home, I would just skip the final leg of the journey (Amsterdam to Glasgow) and get a flight from Amsterdam to Alicante.  However, if I wanted to not take the last flight the price jumped to over £1200!  I then asked the airline if I could simply "miss" the final flight and they said no as my luggage would be booked through to Glasgow!

So I had to go all the way back to Glasgow and arrived an hour after the only connection to Alicante - which meant I had to stay a further night in Glasgow before flying home to Alicante. 

... and my return flights Glasgow to Alicante were over 200€ too!

Had a wonderful holiday though!!

As I said even Mr Spock would have problems explaining the logic of airline pricing...!

When Monarch flew their last flight from LGW to GRX the fare from Gatwick to Granada was over £250  but the return flight from Granada to Gatwick was just £3...

As a company Monarch deliberately priced themselves out of existance on this route; after rescheduling the departure time from Gatwick from 1415 to 0630, thus ensuring that South Coast passengers either had to front up at the airport by taxi or stay overnight to check in at 0430, long before the trains start runningthey noted an immediate decrease in the number of passengers travelling so they put up the fares in an attempt to recover the lost revenue. They then had the nerve to suggest that it was falling load factors that caused them to abandon the route...whereas the real reason was that Granada Airport couldn't afford to subsidise Monarch to the extent that they do Ryanair.

Ryanair have since gone on to exploit their position even further by introducing more flights from Granada, to such destinations as Madrid,  Barcelona (actually Girona), Bologna,and Milan (actually Bergamo). Their original Granada -UK routes remain as before to East Midlands,Liverpool and Stansted.

It remains to be seen whether the STN- GRX route will survive the Stansted shake-up this winter that M.O'L has promised / threatened if his flight crews continue to press for Union recognition...

BTW... Following on from my thread starter I had a look into Ryanairs T's & C's and came across this little gem...

 'POINT-TO-POINT' AIRLINE

Ryanair is a 'point-to-point' airline. We therefore do not offer, and cannot facilitate, the transfer of passengers or their baggage to other flights, whether operated by Ryanair or other carriers. Passengers should not book onward flights connections with Ryanair or indeed with any other air or surface carrier.

Cowboys!

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We have sorry experience of the 'point to point'. My OH used to fly Sweden to Germany (can't remember which airport), and from there to Girona. The flight from Sweden to Germany was once delayed so he missed the flight to Girona and had to spend the night in Germany and buy another ticket to Girona! On another occasion the flight from Girona was delayed so he missed the last train to Benicarlo and had to spend the night in Barcelona. The joys of Ryanair! But they are still the best option for us most of the time.

Regards, Poppyseed