<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by number_6:
I'm told that the airlines flying trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific get the bulk of the RTW revenue. Not really fair, but those are the rules the airlines have adopted. </font>
Weird. Any idea why they would adopt these rules?
My sense has been that US-Europe routes are more expensive (for full J and F tickets) than Europe-Asia which are in turn more expensive than US-Asia. If that's right, then I'd ordinarily expect RTW tickets to share revenue accordingly. Or perhaps to share revenue according to where there's typically the lease excess inventory (which becomes available to RTW pax via A, D, and M buckets). Weird to think Europe-Asia just gets systematically shortchanged here. Hmm.