Originally Posted by
Boten
I have worked in airline revenue management and network planning for all of my career. One thing I have noticed is that people on FT and Airliners.net use the term O/D incorrectly. O/D means origin and destination. In this case CMN is the origin and OSL is the destination (it is the passenger's origin and destination and not the aircraft). They are referred to as an O/D pair. Just like QR LHR-DOH-SIN or QR LHR-DOH final are other O/D pairs. I have also worked in QR for a time and watched them analysing the thousands of O/D pairs that they have.
Similarly QR/EK/EY are referred to inside the industry as O/D carriers, meaning heavily connection based carriers. BA/LH/AF/AA are also O/D carriers. However Ryanair is not and is referred to as a point to point carrier.
Anyway, sorry for the mini lecture; I don't want to appear be rude. As to the response of the OP, RM are either protecting each individual sector or even another O/D pair. So they may be stopping people from CMN travelling to OSL in favour of people travelling from HKG to OSL.
Still doesn't make much sense. If they think HKG to OSL will bring them more profits, instead of blocking out CMN to OSL completely, why don't they just increase the price? Worst case they don't sell the seat, best case they sell the seat for a bigger profit. Or maybe I'm starting to see how the airline industry (except P2P carriers like you said) can be so chronically unprofitable
