Archive for February 13th, 2009

Let’s start with the worst way. The pricing of international flights is controlled by a body called IATA and their rule is that airlines cannot discount prices directly to customers. In the domestic US market, the airlines were deregulated in 1978 and, in theory, airlines are allowed to discount their fares to compete with travel agents. But, in practice, they prefer to maintain the full price. There are two reasons for this….