People say this and it always sounds a bit like a myth, so here's a concrete search. Tokyo to Seattle, May 18th to June 8th. first link ([0]) with the sales city set to Seattle, the other time set to Tokyo ([1]).
Most of the airlines price the flight roughly the same (writing up the differences in pricing to currency conversions, like ~1%) but Singapore Airlines is offering the same flight at 3x the cost!
I feel like I've read in the past about how flight tickets are priced based on many rules, that are shared between various companies that sell tickets. My inference is thus that these rules might be dynamic, but they aren't like.... "price will change minute to minute based on all of the cookies in your browser" dynamic. Which then leads me to wondering: what sort of pricing rules are kicking in for these pricing differences? Because it feels to me a lot more like "lack of a discounting mechanism" rather than "rule that triples singapore airline flights out of Tokyo for Tokyo-based pruchases"
Most of the airlines price the flight roughly the same (writing up the differences in pricing to currency conversions, like ~1%) but Singapore Airlines is offering the same flight at 3x the cost!
I feel like I've read in the past about how flight tickets are priced based on many rules, that are shared between various companies that sell tickets. My inference is thus that these rules might be dynamic, but they aren't like.... "price will change minute to minute based on all of the cookies in your browser" dynamic. Which then leads me to wondering: what sort of pricing rules are kicking in for these pricing differences? Because it feels to me a lot more like "lack of a discounting mechanism" rather than "rule that triples singapore airline flights out of Tokyo for Tokyo-based pruchases"
[0]: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/flights?search=eyJ0eXBlIjoicm...
[1]: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/flights?search=eyJ0eXBlIjoicm...