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Sep 13, 2011 | 8:25 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jdawg

I'm looking at flying BOS-BWI on Saturday afternoon, Oct 1st - all the flights for the day are $54 (same fare on Jetblue), except the 5:10 pm flight which for coach is showing up for $264!

Any reason as to why this flight is so much more?

Inevitably, the answer is that the flight is much fuller than the revenue management algorithm expects. The simple answer is that the flight has sold out at the lower fares.