[sricola]

Yeah, lots of facts missing here. and the facts don't add up. I still think the original itinerary was a round trip - and the total fare being shown is a round trip fare. The author/CTO of the company this "blog" is on has yet to clarify.

If the facts are fudged, this is shameful. Airlines are still terrible companies, but this is shameful.

[tejasmanohar]

Even with the same fare class, the tickets sometimes cost more through the change interface on United.com. We've added more detail to our post-- https://bookwithcarry.com/blog/united-cheap-flights-coronavi...

I can assure you that there was no intentional fudging here, and if there's something we're missing, we'd be the first that would like to know it. Due to all the discussion about fare classes, we've also included information in the blog post about problems in the change flow related to that.