{"id":2430,"date":"2019-12-02T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/travel\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:56:59","slug":"fare-bucket-pricing-booking-airline-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/travel\/fare-bucket-pricing-booking-airline-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fare Bucket Pricing | Booking Airline Tickets For Multiple People? Be Sure To Use This Trick\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So you’re booking airline tickets for your family of four from Boston to Minneapolis and go looking for the best deal. The novice traveler will immediately go to their favorite website, input the origin & destination, choose “four passengers” and then book their tickets. And by leaving out one essential step, they may have just cost themselves hundreds of dollars. Today we discuss the often misunderstand topic of fare bucket pricing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By going straight to four people when booking airline tickets, you may have unintentionally failed to take advantage of one of the airline industry’s idiosyncrasies: fare bucket pricing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Booking Airline Tickets – The Fare Bucket<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It Doesn’t Matter How Many Passengers Are In Your Group: Check The Fare For One Person<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By going straight to four people (or however many people are in your party) when booking airline tickets, you may have unintentionally failed to take advantage of one of the airline industry’s idiosyncrasies: fare bucket pricing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Airlines don’t sell all the tickets on a flight for the same price, of course. Rather, they sort fares into categories, or buckets.<\/em> Once the tickets in the cheapest buckets are sold out, the airline moves up to the next bucket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if there are only three tickets at the lowest price?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But what happens if there are only three tickets available in the lowest bucket and you need four? The airline could, of course, give you the three tickets at the lower price and charge the higher price for just the fourth. But they won’t. Instead, they’ll try to sell you all four at the higher price! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when I tried to book four tickets for Boston to Minneapolis, I started by asking for the price for just one<\/em> ticket. Here’s what they showed me after I booked the outbound leg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not bad for a roundtrip flight. But the key to the deal is indicated in red: There are only three tickets available at this price. What would happen, though, if I had asked for four tickets right away? I checked it out, and this is what I saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The price is now $506 per ticket, and that’s for all four tickets! By not getting the three tickets at the lower price, you’re going to pay an extra $54 for each of them, or a total of $162. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here Are The Steps That You Should Take To Save $162.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

So what’s the best way to handle this situation? It’s easy. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n