Originally Posted by
TMOTEE
I guess I started this post because I thought it was strange that 2 weeks before the flight there were so many upgrade seats available at a lower ticket price when we would have paid more for the BF ticket. Usually this close to travel date the BF cabin might be almost sold out and all that is available is full J but this is obviously not the case.
Again, we're not privy to the numbers.
Just because there is inventory doesn't mean discounting is in order. If there are 30 seats available, and a $3,400 price would sell all 30 of them, maybe a $7,000 price would sell 15 of them, meanwhile allowing CO to oversell Y by 15 additional seats (let's call those $1,500 seats). Some of those Y tickets may upgrade (copay $), and others will get op-upped.
Just an example, there are many ways it can work out, but we don't know the behind-the-scenes numbers, so it's not a fair assumption to say CO should discount these.