Absurd and crazy might describe the ticket prices charged by US Airways Group Inc. to fly nonstop from Philadelphia to Boston.
Absurd and crazy might describe the ticket prices charged by US Airways Group Inc. to fly nonstop from Philadelphia to Boston. The airline’s Web site yesterday had $550 one-way coach fares, or $1,100 round-trip, for current travel on its 16 weekday nonstop flights.
Why so expensive for a trip that is 280 air miles and takes five hours on Amtrak?
In a word: monopoly. No one else flies there from here.
After AirTran Airways stopped flying the route in 2007, ticket prices crept up. Then, in August, Delta Air Lines Inc. dropped the route, and fares rose again.