Midwest Airlines Midwest Miles (Pre-Alignment) - Temporarily waiving advance purchase requirements?

Is YX matching this temporary change?

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=11846.blog

From the story, it says yes

The airlines that waived their advance purchase requirements are American Airlines, United, Delta, Northwest, US Airways, Frontier, AirTran and Midwest. Continental still requires a 3-day advance purchase, but Parsons says it may also follow its competitors' move.

Does the media always report accurately?

From the story, it says yes

The airlines that waived their advance purchase requirements are American Airlines, United, Delta, Northwest, US Airways, Frontier, AirTran and Midwest. Continental still requires a 3-day advance purchase, but Parsons says it may also follow its competitors' move.


Thanks, knope. I guess that's what happens when I try to rush and multi-task. :)

Does the media always report accurately?

Oh no...don't burst my bubble!

I found an example to confirm that Midwest is participating.

I checked MKE-CLE-MKE for holiday travel and the fare buckets out there are as low as the normal 21-day fares, and the fare rules don't include the minimum stay. The names of the fare buckets don't look like the familiar name patterns to me, although I'm not overly familiar with them.

Although the advance purchase requirement is being waived, capacity control probably still comes into play. Flights with cheap seats sold out are still goig to be expensive...but cheap seats won't "time" out. (That's why I checked a market like CLE instead of a market like LAX...CLE flights don't get all much holiday demand.) So MKE-LGA-MKE can still be had for as little as $128 on some flights going 12/24 and returning 12/28. But the other direction LGA-MKE-LGA, where demand is much more crushing, it's more like $700 for the same dates.

I found an example to confirm that Midwest is participating.

I checked MKE-CLE-MKE for holiday travel and the fare buckets out there are as low as the normal 21-day fares, and the fare rules don't include the minimum stay. The names of the fare buckets don't look like the familiar name patterns to me, although I'm not overly familiar with them.

Although the advance purchase requirement is being waived, capacity control probably still comes into play. Flights with cheap seats sold out are still goig to be expensive...but cheap seats won't "time" out. (That's why I checked a market like CLE instead of a market like LAX...CLE flights don't get all much holiday demand.) So MKE-LGA-MKE can still be had for as little as $128 on some flights going 12/24 and returning 12/28. But the other direction LGA-MKE-LGA, where demand is much more crushing, it's more like $700 for the same dates.

I did a few spot checks too. CMH and PIT are also coming up with some fares in the lower buckets for travel next week.