Originally Posted by
frobozzelectric
are those ridiculously cheap fares we sometimes refer to as "error" fares really caused by human or IT errors or are they planted "easter eggs", calculated and put in place by actuarians to keep us excited and in the game?
Some are real. Some are errors. I'm quite certain that *A didn't really want to sell a bunch of ~700 euro r/t biz seats this week, for example. In other cases the goal is simply filling planes, brand/name awareness or making up some of the loss on ancillary sales associated with the ticket.