It's Easier to Find Decent One-Way Airfares

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Start looking for airfares on most airline or agency Web sites, and the search program almost always defaults to round trip. To be sure, a round-trip ticket is usually what you want, but once in a while you really prefer one-way. Because most round-trip tickets require you to set your return date when you buy your ticket, a trip with an indefinite stay may require two one-way tickets. Or perhaps you want to fly one way, then drive, take a train or cruise the other.

Until recently, the lowest fares on most lines were restricted to round-trip tickets with a minimum Saturday-night stay. The idea was to gouge business travelers who, presumably, don't like to be away from home over a weekend while enticing leisure travelers with bargain rates. Until recently, even on giant low-fare line Southwest, the cheapest trips required round-trip purchase, and the round-trip requirement was ironclad on the "legacy" lines.

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It's Easier to Find Decent One-Way Airfares

That picture has changed dramatically, if not uniformly. I compared round-trip and one-way deals in early September, and I found a...

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