great AA pricing trick: advertise a certain price, then increase it by $120 when you actually try to book
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I feel like clear-cut bait and switch pricing is illegal?
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Presumably somebody else bought the last available seat in that fare class? (They should have said "only 1 left"...)
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nope. it's doing the exact same thing down to the same price increment on 8 different flights so far
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yeah. it's every single AA ticket regardless of date or destination I've looked at
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Does the $113 increment line up with certain taxes/fees based on the result in matrix.itasoftware.com/ ?

Oct 22, 2016 · 7:49 PM UTC

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taxes and fees are included in the advertised price. I just got one from United that didn't do the switch
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AA is very obviously trying some sort of experiment to juice profits by fiddiling with prices
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