Originally Posted by slim_slag
Some people will pay BA an extra £40, some will not. Neither are wrong.
But what is undoubtedly wrong - and where my disagreement came in to this - was the following:-
Originally Posted by daz211
I could fly from stansted with ryanair and fly to CIA as it is closer to ROME i pay less than half the price of BA
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Ba 14sep-18sep LHR-FCO £552.30
FR 14sep-18sep STN-CIA £113.75
I didnt think I had to buy a meal for all pax on BA flight
Except that the "base fare" comparison, FWIW, was £37.98 vs £60.00, and the total payable was £66.75 vs £106.30. So in neither case was FR quite as low as half of BA's price.
But, anyway, that's a technical quibble.
More substantively, it's wrong because it was a meaningless comparison and posted for its misleading effect.