Originally Posted by
peasant
Not necessarily. This could just be a side effect of cacheing.
For that case the cache was off for 48 hours, until CX withdrew the ~12 seats from redemption on Friday 26/8
Originally Posted by
peasant
True availability requires a call back to the revenue management system, taking into account POS/POC/frequent flyer tier/ currency/ current demand/ supply balance etc etc
Makes a mockery of the stated oneworld "competitive advantage"
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...l#post24791807
But what isn't oneworld or its members throwing out the window these days?
Originally Posted by
peasant
So rather than show each other the true availability on search, you use a cache, and only update the cache when required. But there is then a risk that the cache and reality are out of sync, and when pax actually makes booking, so sorry, not available.
The way to reduce this risk is to be conservative on what the cache shows. So even if CX has 6 seats, you tell your partners you only have 1. And you only need to update the cache when you go to 0, (or more seats opened up) rather than updating the cache from 6 to 4 back up to 5 etc.
That was suggested to me privately. This is known behaviour for JL Domestic (which only ever shows 4 seats) or LAN domestic (7 seats).
Since there's no way for me to test the theory cost free (well, short of booking BAEC and then cancelling within 24 hours) I didn't really try.
But it'd be horrible for planning purposes if CX is really drip-feeding availablity to its partners - are we all going to have to "test" CX availability on BAEC and cancelling if we get it wrong?