Originally Posted by
StayingHomeIsBetter
Your numbers don't work out.
In aggressively FCM'd markets, a P fare may only be 2x to 3x what you paid for your heavily discounted fare, and only $50 or so above the last minute, somewhat discounted coach fare.
The P fare can be discounted off of a full F fare by as much as 60 to 70%.
So to get that extra $50, DL management is undercutting the value perception of FC... saying it's only worth 30 to 40% of what they claim it is worth.
They are creating a situation where the only folks who would ever buy a full F fare are the totally clueless, and those who try to compensate for something else by coming here to FT to brag about how they "always buy F."
Please explain how your "math" works when nobody would willingly pay the inflated price for F you propose.
Your "argument" is that DL should sell F at a price above which they could actually sell seats in F. Somehow, this is supposed to "protect" some sort of revenue in F. By this "logic" the optimal pricing strategy would be to price F at $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 or more per seat. Please explain how such a pricing strategy would benefit DL.