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subject2load
He is currently checking out (one-way) flight options to CDG for tomorrow (early morning departure).
With BA from LHR : cheapest is £328. ET cabin, flex plus. No lower fare types available (CE is only a little more)
With easyjet from LTN : £52
Hmm. He could go with BA for the bargain price of £328 - with absolutely no guarantee that any food & drink will be loaded/available. OR could take EZY for £52.
That's simply because that BA flight is nearly totally full of passengers, most of whom paid a lot less than £328 - about a third of these passengers paid £70 or less, the cheapest seat being £56. It's nearly oversold. The service after that has seats at £249. Indeed the cheapest BA flight tomorrow is from LGW for £86 as a Vueling codeshare. I appreciate this is the choice facing your colleague right now, but trying to infer anything - other than that full flights cost more money on any airline and that U2 isn't doing very well selling seats out of Luton tomorrow - would be silly. Even the plural of anecdote isn't data.