“Absolutely, true. That has been my experience,” said Ann Marie Cosentino of Freehold.

Cosentino frequently flies for business and says she has seen a huge price difference in booking a multi-city trip versus several one-way tickets, the kind of difference Sen. Bob Menendez pointed out today as he accused three major airlines of price gouging.

“It’s yet another stealth airfare rip off,” he said.

The senator says his staff called one of the three big airlines yesterday and found a multi-city round trip ticket — Newark to Los Angeles to San Francisco and back to Newark — costs $1,311. But if staff booked it as three, one-way tickets — one from Newark to L.A., and a separate one L.A. to San Francisco, and back to Newark — the cost drops to $592, a $700 price difference.

“That makes no sense. You’re riding same plane with the same crew using the same amount of jet fuel, even sitting maybe in the same seat. It shouldn’t cost hundreds of dollars more,” Menendez said.

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