Originally Posted by
skywardhunter

sometimes I don't believe you when you say you work in hospitality...
So on a LHR-JFK they take fares of all the 97 airlines (made up figure, I know it's probably not 97!) that operate that route and work it out from there?
quite a bit off topic but:
the full fares are public (okay not on the homepage but in Amadeus etc, filed with 7 in the end for EK eg ...AE7. It's a bit a 'fake full fare' as normally - as et explained - there are full fares from iata (iirc yif in Y, cif in J and fif in F), where you can combine nearly every airline with each other and with any routing (there are some limitations...). *geek mode off*
edit: lot already mentioned above...

jetlaged sorry...