New York, NY – There is a quiet inefficiency at the heart of air travel. Airlines, travel agencies, and consolidators all sell seats on the same plane — often at wildly different prices. A New York to Paris round trip might cost $510 on one platform and $357 on another, for the same seat, same date, same airline. The difference is not a glitch. It is the market working exactly as designed — fragmented, opaque, and tilted against anyone who does not have time to check everywhere.<