Originally Posted by
johnirvine
The norm among Star Alliance airlines is to allow booking up to around 355 days in advance. Running booking schedules of less than 200 days in advance means that Aegean cannot participate effectively in code-share operations or RTW schemes. For sure, it reduces their revenue - this week, I booked three LCA-TXL tickets for Nov/Dec on other airlines that would otherwise have gone to A3.
I think you have to balance this against the shifting nature of A3's route offering - they are opening up many new routes without really expanding the fleet (the OA planes largely just serving the destinations they always did), so by implication something has to go to balance the available fleet inventory.
That would be a very sound financial reason not to sell tickets so far in advance - pulling a route to introduce a more profitable one is good business, but not if you've got to pay to re-route already booked passengers on other carriers when you cancel their flight, aside from the public relations disaster of doing so ...