For the past week or so I’ve been desperately trying to get the heck out of Ann Arbor both this weekend and for the weekend of the 29th. Something about being in this cold state (that’s a noun and an adjective), makes me go crazy after being in town for more than two consecutive weekends.
As I write this from my kitchen table on this snowy Michigan Saturday morning, I blame the airlines for my dilemma. Running a series of flex searches on Kayak and NWA.com over the week, I discovered a secret sale to Germany, of sorts, where I could get from here to Düsseldorf, Germany for about 390$. That’s a pretty good, although not a phenomenal price for the four thousand mile journey.
But its only good for Easter weekend.
Leaving the prior and following weekends on the same flights yields the prices of 2,192$ and 939$ respectively.
The problem is that nobody wants to go to Europe for Easter; most of our families are in The States and we won’t be traveling that far to see them. So with the decreased demand and the same supply, airlines are forced to drop prices over that weekend.
It makes you wonder how much money they’re making on the 390$ flight and if they are profiting, how much they’re gouging on the others. It sort of makes you angry.