Originally Posted by Bonaventure
Can anyone surmise what's going on with HKG-DEL pricing and availability?
CX fares are absolutely out of whack, 3x the price of 9W and AI on the same non-stops. These routes also used to be pretty good in terms of award availability but have recently dried up entirely (for two routes on which planes almost consistently go out 50% empty). Have seen a lot of jumping around in terms of fares filed and unfiled over the past month (for a week, one way J to USA was pricing with discount business fare bucket. Next week, all dissapears).
Just looking at the fares filed between HKG and DEL shows only full fare fares? What's going on?
Does EF display HKG POS (Point of Sale) fares? If not, any CX fare from HKG will look like this. I believe most ex-HKG CX fares can only be viewed from a HKG POS.
Originally Posted by
Bonaventure
Thanks! Count me in as one of those clueless people! I can't believe how this is in any way a sensible business strategy. To simply give one TA a monopoly over all of your own fares between your home country and a country of more than a billion people? Astounding.
I believe (based on earlier reports here) the reason is that Nanda helped CX secure some traffic rights to India.