Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
I think with the advent of one-way, simple domestic fares, the days of trying to prevent end-on-end combos in situations like this are kinda dead, and the airlines just deal with it. I'd think the smarter revenue management thing to do would be to just publish cheaper fares with NON-STOPS NOT PERMITTED restrictions and let these price-sensitive folks go through hubs rather than inefficiently having them treat an outstation like a hub.
They're not intending to sell these combinations, so that's not going to happen. Besides, what would happen? Everyone IAH-EWR would be forced through IAD or ORD?
This opens up a ton of options, and they should be happy with it, because they're selling IAH-TPA and TPA-EWR at market fares that they want. Only the price sensitive traveler is going to bother with this, and it's better to take his money for market fares through another city than let that money go to an OAL.