Originally Posted by
dark_horse
- Had I instead turned up to the airport a few hours before travel and bought the cheapest available Y ticket (though, in practice, this may equally have been B or H; semi-flexible) a few hours before boarding, the ticket would probably [true?] have been cheaper than the equivalent FF ticket booked months before.
But that flight may have been full and, by buying a (any) ticket in advance, you at least guaranteed your seat on it (for most definitions of the word 'guaranteed').