Originally Posted by
chiph
I understand trying to monetize the seats and the problem of "unlimited space available." However, when the flight is literally wide open and you have 14 F seats for sale on a Thursday morning flight, you'd be insane to think you're going to sell even half of those within 48 hours.
Of course, but if you're revenue management and you know the potential upgrader isn't going anywhere, why not just hold out till the last second, just in case?
I think at least some of this has to do with the buy-up upgrade program, which most passengers use at the OLCI window.