US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Lottery Ticket

I need to rush out and buy one!

I just called to change a flight -- no change fee & no add/collect! (Obviously I slipped up and purchased a non-cockroach fare...)

You and PineyBob are going to give us cockroaches a bad rep http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.

Just booked a flight to DCA and the plane is wide open on that Dash 8. Needed that extra 30 minutes coming back from a meeting. AA and US seem to mirror each other on schedules and US got rid of the 2PM flight back I used often--so now AA has almost a lock on my business trips to DC.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TomBascom:
I need to rush out and buy one!

I just called to change a flight -- no change fee & no add/collect! (Obviously I slipped up and purchased a non-cockroach fare...)</font>

Just to be clear -- I didn't buy a full fare on purpose -- so I'm still a cockroach in spirit.

This was apparently one of those rare reasonably priced unrestricted tickets. It probably only happened because SWA serves both airports. I think it was about $100 more than my usual fare into that market. So t's sort of like the change fee was pre-paid http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

But just imagine if this sort of thing was routine!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TomBascom:
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But just imagine if this sort of thing was routine!</font>

We would probably buy more of this type of tix as the risk-reward ratio would be more palatable. In turn, US would derive cost savings with a more streamlimed fare structure, more efficient use of a res agent's time, and quicker transactions. Not to mention the increased revenue.

But then again, I'm not an airline pricing guru so what do I know?... But, considering this airline is bankrupt, and many others are also losing their shirt, maybe there aren't that many pricing gurus anyway.




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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Arrzee:
We would probably buy more of this type of tix as the risk-reward ratio would be more palatable. In turn, US would derive cost savings with a more streamlimed fare structure, more efficient use of a res agent's time, and quicker transactions. Not to mention the increased revenue.</font>

Exactly. For instance... earlier today I bought a ticket between MHT & BWI. It priced at $188 -- I had a little time on my hands so I decided to see what my unrestricted options might be in the hopes that there might be something similar to above available.

Nope, next fare up is almost $600. I can throw away 3 of these V fares for that.

(And they can't even cry poverty about the $185 fare -- that's almost $0.30/mile. Well over even US Airways' CASM.)