[mahmud]

A few days ago I wanted a one way flight from SYD to IAD, it was $1600. For fun I decided to see how much a round trip would cost: I bought it for $1100.

It's $500 cheaper to get a round-trip ticket than to fly one way from Sydney to Washington D.C.

[ganley]

This is the part I've never understood. I can see why they don't want to make it half the price (though this works just fine for discount airlines), but MORE? WTF?

[snitko]

Interestingly in Russia it's nothing like that. Round-ticket costs only slightly less than twice the price of a one way ticket (seems logical). Not sure, if this is good or bad, because I really don't understand the underlying logic behind this pricing policy of making one-way ticket twice as expensive as a one-way ticket.