Originally Posted by
ph-ndr
That is one of the basic things that revenue management does: making sure there is seats allocated to where they expect to sell seats with a higher income. O/D pricing is significantly higher, so it makes sense that the segments individually have availability.
Simply put: just because you, as a customer, want to buy something from them doesn't mean they want to sell it to you at that price.
In your sepcifc cases above it seems QR thinks they can fill DOH-OSL and CMN-DOH with more O/D traffic than they can for CPH, TXL and AMS.
-A
This doesn't make any sense because even if this were the case, they should make seats available and just alter the pricing. Not to mention the CMN-DOH flight is common to both the OSL/ARN itineraries and CPH/TXL/AMS itineraries suggesting that unless prices of those are much higher, they are really only expecting to sell lots of O&D / higher value connecting traffic to OSL/ARN... Which is unlikely.
Having quickly looked at flight timings, I think that may be the issue - there are a few flights per week that you can connect on easily (2 hour layover), but many days were the best you can do is 8+ hours. Maybe they don't want to offer STPC?
Or more likely, it's just what happens when you run an airline that's not subject to any real commercial pressure.