Help understanding fare jumps
Looked at SFO-EWR-AUA-EWR-SFO yesterday. Coach was somewhere around $800, 1st was $1050. Check today, same fare basis / buckets, but everything is significantly more expensive.
What can cause this if not sell out at the cheaper fare buckets - has to be just a random and significant price increase to each given fare bucket, right?
Very frustrating. I flew 150k last year on this airline and still can't figure out their pricing formula - no reason for any algorithm to bump this price right now.
Any thoughts as to what could have happened?