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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 12:43 pm
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Originally Posted by lyfqtv
I am not sure how it works in your company, however in my they always choose the lowest rate available, taking the risk of paying the change fee if needed. My opinion as a passenger is not taken into account.
While we do that sometimes, most of my flights are highly dynamic and we'd rather pay for a higher and more flexible class. 100% of my flights in the past 22 months has been to the east and until there is some serious competition I don't see any pressure we could exert changing things. The move made sense for LY since they need to deal with smaller travel budgets for many of the companies.

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