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Mar 19, 2013 | 10:22 am

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Originally Posted by remyontheroad

Well the point is that there may be the same number of U and T available when a flight goes on sale, but the lower class will always sell out before the one above.

If people are searching by lowest fares (99.999% of flyers), they are going to buy T until T sells out and gets to U9T0.

(Yes, someone is going to point out the almost impossible scenario where at U9T5 two groups of people come along wanting blocks of 6 tix and are pushed into U, making it sell out before T, but it's extremely unlikely.)

It's not a HUGE thing, but it is certainly a negative.

You are taking an overly simplistic view of how revenue management works a flight... It's not like 20 seats are held for T and 20 for U and when those 20 T are gone they are never coming back.

Last edited by Canarsie; Apr 14, 2013 at 2:14 am Reason: Removed unnecessary content.

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