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    "Especially on international flights" I think that's a very US-centric statement. Really, you're talking about the difference between traditional and budget carriers. When you live in a huge country like the US, budget carriers do mostly internal flights and most international flights are with traditional carriers. But, somewhere like Europe, the great majority of flights are international flights and if, say, you fly from Poland to the Netherlands on a budget carrier, you'll find that a return ticket costs basically the same as two one-ways. Commented Nov 3, 2017 at 11:13
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    I can weigh in on the cost statement. Surely this is anecdotical, but I wanted to travel HEL–TXL two years ago. A one-way flight would actually cost more than double the price of the entire round trip. Commented Nov 3, 2017 at 13:04
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    @DavidRicherby When I said "international," I meant basically "not domestic or regional." This is why I described the opposite type of flights as "domestic/regional" when discussing areas outside of North America later in that paragraph. Within North America, it's not a matter of what type of carrier you're flying on. It applies just as much to the legacy carriers as to the ULCCs. Outside of North America, it's mostly LCCs, but expanding to legacy carriers on domestic/regional routes. Commented Nov 3, 2017 at 15:02
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    It's quite entertaining how both North Americans and Europeans think the whole world runs the same way as it does in their own region and the ignorant residents of the other region are just experiencing minor exceptions to the general rule. Commented Nov 4, 2017 at 8:51