Originally Posted by
wayoutwest
Booking class totally irrelevant. They are advertising one price form Auckland and another from New Zealand, if the Auckland price is available then the New Zealand price should be available otherwise they may as well just advertise the Auckland price and we take pot luck with the price from elsewhere in NZ as per usual.
it's a real shame that no-one from NZ or a certain government department is a regular on here as I am sure they have channels to bring these things to the attention of management - or do they and no-one higher up cares?
Let's look at the limit case regarding fare buckets. If one of the domestic sectors is totally zeroed out, should NZ still sell you the cheap fare?
And the limiting case regarding individual sectors; cheap single domestic sectors are continuously advertised, but I often don't get to book those as they are all sold out. Is that unfair?
Sure, perhaps NZ could load [more] inventory that's exclusively combinable with these cheap fares (and eat any additional arbitrage opportunity that creates) - but that's completely related to booking class.