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Old Feb 7, 2013, 11:44 am
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hobo13
 
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Originally Posted by GYEWorldTraveler
Just spot checking a few routes when the sale initially came out yielded inventory of 9+ seats at the appropriate booking class. Accepting 9+ seats at $38 base ($49ai) is a money losing proposition. Not quite sure why airlines file such low sales anymore. Doesn't seem to be too necessary to file sale fares that are less than half price a normal "sale" fare. I think the smart legacy carriers are more than happy sitting this one out and watching the LCCs fill 10+ seats on their flights with these super low fares.
For you to know that these are a money-losing proposition for DL, you must be a fairly high-level executive in DL's revenue management department. And as such, I would expect that posting such sensitive information in a public forum would violate your employer's agreement about sharing sensitive data.

Unless..... you don't really work for DL. And you don't really know. @:-)
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