More expensive for less flights?

thisisadamh

Hi all,
I am looking to buy a ticket for DUB to CPT. Since there are no direct flight with any carrier I have to connect somewhere. With the new Bank of Ireland student promotion I got free flight to anywhere in Europe. So I thought, why don't I just book from eg. France to Cape Town or London to Cape Town or Zurich to Cape Town; that would obviously be cheaper since you omitting the DUB to X flight. But in all cases it was more expensive! Someone please explain this to me, because it is not following any logic what so ever.

Eg: Dublin to Cape Town via Istanbul = €589; Istanbul to Cape Town = €763

trodsky

What is CPT and why do you need it?

thisisadamh

trodsky wrote: »

What is CPT and why do you need it?

Cape Town

Visiting family

Savman

thisisadamh wrote: »

Hi all,
I am looking to buy a ticket for DUB to CPT. Since there are no direct flight with any carrier I have to connect somewhere. With the new Bank of Ireland student promotion I got free flight to anywhere in Europe. So I thought, why don't I just book from eg. France to Cape Town or London to Cape Town or Zurich to Cape Town; that would obviously be cheaper since you omitting the DUB to X flight. But in all cases it was more expensive! Someone please explain this to me, because it is not following any logic what so ever.

Eg: Dublin to Cape Town via Istanbul = €589; Istanbul to Cape Town = €763

Different markets, different rules, that's how the airlines see it anyway.

€589 to Cape Town is a good price tbh.

thisisadamh

Savman wrote: »

Different markets, different rules, that's how the airlines see it anyway.

€589 to Cape Town is a good price tbh.

It brilliant, far cheaper than any other airline. Just thought I would try and get it cheaper by omitting the DUB to IST flight. But seems no can do.

ballooba

trodsky wrote: »

What is CPT and why do you need it?

The guy used an established industry standard abbreviation (IATA Airport Code) which is a lot more than can be said for most Boardsies. Some of the nonsense we have to decipher around here is absurd. Fair play to the OP.

basill

The guy used an established industry standard abbreviation (IATA Airport Code) which is a lot more than can be said for most Boardsies. Some of the nonsense we have to decipher around here is absurd. Fair play to the OP.

Don't waste your time acknowledging his/her existence. They are a troll. A quick search of his posts will tell you he:-

- boils steak
- posted his keys to the bank and has skipped the country
- offers grocery tips and doesn't like the fruit in ALDI

orionm_73

Turkish airlines are competing with all the airlines that offer a DUB-xxx-CPT connection and they are doing it using the price of the ticket. They may be trying to undercut BA, Air France. The price of the ticket can have little bearing on the cost to the airline. Fewer flights doesn't always mean cheaper flights.

Put it another way, in order to entice you to do fly 800miles further via IST they feel the need to offer a cheaper ticket.

BuffyBot

From another post of mine:

Airlines often offer cheaper tickets outside their home markets to attract traffic. For example a flight from Amsterdam to San Francisco might cost 700 euro, but from Dublin 600.

It's an incentive. So if Turkish are offering Istanbul to Capetown at a dearer price than Dublin, it's because they want to attract passengers. Likewise if you lived in Istanbul, you might find Alitalia or another airline offering cheaper flights via their hub to attract passengers away from Turkish Airlines.

irishbloke77

thisisadamh wrote: »

Hi all,
I am looking to buy a ticket for DUB to CPT. Since there are no direct flight with any carrier I have to connect somewhere. With the new Bank of Ireland student promotion I got free flight to anywhere in Europe. So I thought, why don't I just book from eg. France to Cape Town or London to Cape Town or Zurich to Cape Town; that would obviously be cheaper since you omitting the DUB to X flight. But in all cases it was more expensive! Someone please explain this to me, because it is not following any logic what so ever.

Eg: Dublin to Cape Town via Istanbul = €589; Istanbul to Cape Town = €763

The taxes a country charges passengers to flying out or in to it varies a lot. For example, the taxes out of London are a LOT higher than the taxes out of Dublin. This would partially explain why some flights cost more.

Dublin-London-Cape Town on 1 ticket would see London as a transfer airport, so you are not "technically" flying in or out of it meaning littles or no taxes from the London point of view.

€589 is a great price, book it before it disappears

seanmacc

I usually fly DUB-PDX (Portland Oregon) via Amsterdam with KLM. I've noticed that the price is the same as if you just book it from AMS to PDX.

Doesn't make sense but there you go.

L1011

KLM are on a big marketing push in Ireland

TK are trying to remind people they exist and that they have quite a large hub in IST, as well as increasing frequencies to DUB next year.

Those would be the main explanations for the above.