# US Air/American merger-ticket price discrepancies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-air-american-merger-ticket-price-discrepancies/680584>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 5, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-air-american-merger-ticket-price-discrepancies/680584 "2014-02-05T16:41:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-air-american-merger-ticket-price-discrepancies/680584/1 "2014-02-05T16:41:03Z")

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Looking for a flight in Oct. - same flight - $200 on US Air, about $500 on American. Would you say buy now? It’s a little early, but I have no feel for what this merger is going to do to prices.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-air-american-merger-ticket-price-discrepancies/680584/2 "2014-02-06T04:49:11Z")

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[This might help](http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2013/12/09/what-to-expect-next-from-the-american-us-airways-merger/).

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**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-air-american-merger-ticket-price-discrepancies/680584/3 "2014-02-06T14:16:56Z")

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I can’t imagine prices will go down much if at all. I would buy the ticket now assuming you have checked the historic prices.