Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
What does United do to grab some more revenue from the less-than-full flights? Simply publish a new fare for XXX-YYY in G class, perhaps with certain restrictions (e.g., a minimum stay) to keep the folks who normally buy the B fares from mooching.
I think OP's complaint is that united.com is not smart enough to display "only relevant fare buckets", i.e. only to show availability in buckets for which it is currently possible to ticket an itinerary in the current search results.
This would avoid the OP's confusion ("why can't I buy a G fare? it says there's G") but would be really, really bad for other people because it would make it quite difficult for them to see whether there is G inventory on a segment where it is important to them (for the kinds of reasons you outline above).
I do think it's a bit silly that UA publishes and displays PN inventory on routes which are not B-up eligible … but it's also really handy to get an unfiltered list of buckets for lots of reasons, so I hope UA does not do any work to improve the display logic.