When a fare filter looks busy and the ticket does not

Product owners often arrive with a worry that guests “bounce” after searching. In the walkthrough the guest is still on the fare grid, tapping morning versus evening, then a bag, then a return that skips a Friday public holiday.

Those taps are real. They are also usually unnamed as a group. Each control fires its own event, so the week looks energetic at the filter and empty at “ticket issued.” The traveler did not vanish. The path simply stopped being counted as one trip.

When we review this path we ask for a single row that means “fare chosen,” with properties for time window, bags, and holiday skip. The filter taps can still exist for designers. They should not be the only story the product owner reads before a long weekend.