Airlines Getting Smarter? Travel Insurance with ticket. pricing to Thailand

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Additionally, the flight price from USA (Dulles in wash DC with 3 hr plane change in Abu Dhabi) is $520 USD from now well into April (except weekends).

If you want ticket only to Abiu Dhabi its over $1000usd (go figure). Airline pricing is weird.

Standard practice nowadays. Airlines charge more if the flight starts or ends in their own country.

For example last year I flew London to Bangkok via Zürich with Swiss and the fare was about £1500 (business). Someone I know did the flight from Zürich to Bangkok only and had to pay £3000.

Another example. I put a dummy flight in Emirates website and London to Dubai and back is £4100 (business) ....but if you fly London to Dubai and then on to Bangkok it’s £3800 on the SAME flights in and out of London.

You can of course use this to your advantage as many people are now flying Europe to Bangkok via Norway and getting very good deals.