LAS to BZM only 99 cents!

Hi

I was just checking the Allegiant Air website for fares from CPR to
LAS. By mistake I selected BZM (Bozeman, MT), as my departure city.
Before discovering my mistake I saw a 99 cent fare from LAS to BZM on
Saturday October 9. I did however discover the taxes and fees are more
than the airfare. They bring it up to $11.59 or $25.59 depending on if
you book one way or round trip. Someone else suggested that, because
Allegiant does not normally fly there on Saturdays that they must of
had some sort of charter flight out of there and so the needed to get
the plane there and hoped that they might make some money with
packages they sell.

Michael

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" was claimed to have wrote:

I was just checking the Allegiant Air website for fares from CPR to
LAS. By mistake I selected BZM (Bozeman, MT), as my departure city.
Before discovering my mistake I saw a 99 cent fare from LAS to BZM on
Saturday October 9. I did however discover the taxes and fees are more
than the airfare. They bring it up to $11.59 or $25.59 depending on if
you book one way or round trip. Someone else suggested that, because
Allegiant does not normally fly there on Saturdays that they must of
had some sort of charter flight out of there and so the needed to get
the plane there and hoped that they might make some money with
packages they sell.

I doubt $0.99/flight would come anywhere near the cost to put passengers
on an otherwise empty plane.

Between the costs involved with accepting and processing the payment and
the fuel used lifting and carrying you, there are some fixed costs below
which it's cheaper for an airline to fly with an empty seat.

(This also assumes that the airline already has some passengers on the
plane, if not, a plane full of people at $0.99/head wouldn't cover the
cost to bring in the ticket/gate agents or flight attendants)

Now it's not impossible they're running a loss-leader just to attract
attention, or trying to test a route to see if there are enough
passengers to justify the route even if you take cost out of the
equation, but it seems to me to be more likely that someone screwed up
on the pricing.

On Aug 27, 10:37*pm, " wrote:
Hi

I was just checking the Allegiant Air website for fares from CPR to
LAS. By mistake I selected BZM (Bozeman, MT), as my departure city.
Before discovering my mistake I saw a 99 cent fare from LAS to BZM on
Saturday October 9. I did however discover the taxes and fees are more
than the airfare. They bring it up to $11.59 or $25.59 depending on if
you book one way or round trip. Someone else suggested that, because
Allegiant does not normally fly there on Saturdays that they must of
had some sort of charter flight out of there and so the needed to get
the plane there and hoped that they might make some money with
packages they sell.

Michael
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That's Saturday, October 10th.

I guess if you wanted to visit Bozeman for the day, but getting back
to Vegas will be a bit pricier.