Since airlines wouldn&#x27;t be profitable without price discrimination of the sort that makes hidden cities and throwaway tickets possible, they won&#x27;t just go away, when you post about it.<p>From the airlines&#x27; perspective those fares actually make sense. A direct flight should be more expensive than an indirect one, even if we are talking about the very same flight.<p>It&#x27;s not a bug, it&#x27;s a feature and here to stay...