Originally Posted by
Duke787
KE like has a seat quota that they are required to sell on the codeshare (or a specific number of seats they've already purchased at a given price) and their RM has determined they need to sell into lower inventory buckets or for a lower price to make sure they sell their allotted seats.
DL meanwhile could have sold out their lower inventory buckets for that flight so they've moved to higher fare buckets and higher prices.
It's not the bucket inventory, it's right in the fare rules. The cheaper fare classes have the following:
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST INCLUDE TRAVEL VIA TRANSPACIFIC
SECTORS ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY DL FLIGHT OPERATED BY DL.
You need to buy a B or higher for coach or a J fare in order for the fare to permit KE operated flights on the TPAC sector:
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST INCLUDE TRAVEL VIA TRANSPACIFIC
SECTORS ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY DL FLIGHT OPERATED BY DL
ANY DL FLIGHT OPERATED BY KE.