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Old Jul 13, 2017, 2:11 pm
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Originally Posted by PBAudit
From an economic perspective, I wondered why this idea took so long to implement.
The tech to make it happen, especially to integrate the 3rd party systems - was way more expensive and harder to build. Plus, when average load factors were in the low 70s oversales were less common and less troublesome when they are in the mid-80s.
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