Originally Posted by
channa
What that suggests to me is that they had a higher rate of advance purchases, and a lower rate of closer-in purchases than they had previously, which is what they based their estimates on.
Thanks for the explanation on how that metric is calculated, something I wasn't totally clear on before.
What this is suggesting though, is that UA wouldn't have been able to accommodate many last-minute ticket buyers if they'd have to deny boarding to even more advance-purchase buyers, possibly record numbers of them. All things considered, the cheap advance ticket buyers were actually lucky high-priced flyers stayed away from UA in June.
Any way one wants to look at it, I think it's fair to say that UA isn't doing very well in securing the most valuable flyers by revenue as they had been, or that their competitors are, and cheap TODs aren't making up the fare discrepancy. Agree/disagree?