Lufthansa charges hefty amount for One-way ticket than Two-way travel

Lufthansa charges hefty amount for One-way ticket always than Two-way travel


Question from me is why does Lufthansa charges hefty amount (not even small difference but its huge) for One-way ticket when compared to Two-way ticket?


Today, I tried to book ticket to travel to India around end of June (Frankfurt to Bengaluru).

To my surprise, I saw a huge difference in the price. I have seen other airline carriers who charge more than the half price of two-way ticket. But Lufthansa charges more than 4 times which is crazy.


What I did was searched flight for same date (23^rd June) keeping search option as return journey and next search with only onward journey. Results were shocking for me.

One-way flight tickets costs 2424.36 € for the journey on 23rd June. 

Two-way flight tickets costs me 699.84 € (both onward & return included) out of which Frankfurt to Bengaluru flight costs 393.36 € and rest of the amount is for return journey. Screenshot can be referred.

Isn’t this insane and Lufthansa is fooling people? Looks like this is how they make huge profits. Screenshot can be referred. 
With this money, I can do 3 two-way journeys and still have some money left instead of going for a one-way journey. Thats hell lot of money.


As the world is struggling to fight against Corona wave, almost all airline carriers have cancelled their journeys. At the moment situation is unclear but people are doing their part of social distancing and trying to cut the chain as much as possible.


Governments are doing a lot to overcome the situation. They have put lockdown in most of the places.  Hats off to the health workers, Government officials, Security personals, Consulates etc… who are working hard to ensure that the inconveniences caused are minimal.



Coming to my situation. My mother has come from India to Germany to see her new born grand-daughter and currently spending time with us. She holds valid VISA and will be going back on 24^th April but due to lock-down, she will not be able to enter India as the passenger flights are not allowed until 3^rd May. In my opinion, this will even further extend. DGCA has already informed the airline carriers not to open start the bookings from 4^th May onwards so this means until situation is clear, there will be no flights. I did check because needed VISA to be extended for which revised flight booking to later date was expected from the supporting staff.