Out of curiosity, I checked round-trip tickets today from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- Portland, Maine. Why might you ask? Because at the moment Air Asia (which is the best airline EVER as far as I'm concerned) has amazing deals from Seoul-KL and so I thought "hey, maybe tickets from KL to home are cheaper than tickets from Seoul to home." If the cheap tickets from Seoul-KL are WICKED cheap, we could save money.
You won't believe this, people.
Here is what I found from doing a quick search from KL-Portland, on the same dates that I used from Seoul-home:
$1800.00
Okay, so right off the bat the ticket is appearing to be 300.00 cheaper per person than Seoul-Maine. Adding in a ticket TO Kuala Lumpur from Seoul, it ends up being just a little bit cheaper (and a lot of extra time) than our original plan.
BUT just LOOK at the KICKER:
You probably can't make it out, but those are the flight details. DO YOU SEE WHERE THEY ROUTE YOU THROUGH?!?!?!
That's right. They route you through SEOUL. So, to put things in simpler terms:
Flight from Seoul-Portland, Maine :$ 2200.00 (and climbing)
Flight from Kuala Lumpur-Portland, Maine THROUGH SEOUL: $1800.00
It's CHEAPER for me to fly down to Kuala Lumpur from Seoul, fly right back to Seoul and THEN fly to Portland instead of just flying from Seoul to begin with!
Absolutely ridiculous. Matt and I could catch a flight down to KL, spend a few days sightseeing, then jump on another plane, come back to Korea for a few hours and leave for Maine and it would be CHEAPER.
Can you tell how mad this makes me?
What makes me the most angry is envisioning these prices from Kuala Lumpur decreasing as time goes on and for us to actually end up buying them. As it stands right now it's not worth it (maybe we'd save an extra 150.00-200.00 total), but if it keeps looking better, we could justify this. Absurd.
I really don't understand anything anymore.
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