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Jun 11, 2013 | 9:46 am

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Originally Posted by YYZtoDCA

I'm not entirely sure what the website means by "one seat left at this price" -- does it mean on the plane as a whole, in an absolute sense? Or are there a limited number of seats for sale in the fare class at this moment? But I smell a rat.

It means at this moment. It seems like a very simple algorithm.

Pick the lowest Flex fare. How many of those are available right now? Display that number.

If I buy a 5 K fares, then you go and look, it might say 1 available. Then I cancel my booking, and it goes up to 6.

Or AC might have a sale that lowers the cost of a higher fare class, or adds availability in a lower fare class.

I don't really see anything dishonest about this, as long as the numbers line up with EF.

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