Originally Posted by
mpkz
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.
Consider this, numbers are fictional:
- 1 seat available for ARN-DOH-CMN
- 2 seats available for LHR-DOH-CMN
- 10 seats allocated to DOH-CMN
- 10 seats allocated for ARN-DOH and OSL-DOH each
Before you came alone they already sold 1 seat for ARN-DOH-CMN and 1 seat sold for LHR-DOH-CMN. By the time you come along it now reflects what you see.
QR is happy as they have a lot of seats they expect to sell at a higher price.
The weak point in your logic is that revenue management should make sense from your perspective right now at this point in time, whereas they solely exists to make sense for QR overall.
-A