I need to travel to Tallahassee, Florida from Southern California. When I didn’t find a decent connection from San Diego, I tried Ontario, an airport conveniently located for us as an alternate. Here is what it came up with:
1292
07:55AM ONT
12:53PM DFW
$854
$1458
$2997
$2422
$4000
2459
04:50PM DFW
05:55PM LAX
1254
09:15PM LAX
05:18AM MIA
4516
07:20AM MIA
08:40AM TLH
I get to fly out of Ontario at 7:55 in the morning, go to Dallas, spend 5 hours at the airport, only to fly back to LAX so I can leave again from LAX, 100 miles west of Ontario, to go to Miami on the red eye. Heck, I could drive to LAX in the evening and park my car there and get there a day faster.
And if I were to book a first class ticket, it would cost $4,000 for the privilege of being caught in airline hell for a full 24 hours.
Here is an example of an automated system going completely amuck.
