Originally Posted by
Often1
In addition to the ordinary xHUB pricing, EWR is NYC and NYC is a major financial capital with lots of paid premium travel to China. Nobody on Wall Street is driving to AVP to schlep back to EWR.
Bottom line is that UA must believe that its model works. If people will pay $5,200 for UA Polaris, why charge less?
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They believe that only this year then, as fares throughout 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 ranged from $2500 to $6500 for P fares depending on criteria mentioned by mduell in post #2. This year (so far) it's all in the $5400 (± $200) range for the whole year.
(And it's not only AVP either; this has been a reoccurring theme recently. ZFV (Philly Amtrak Station), and BDL (Hartford) are others that come to mind.)
Originally Posted by
COSPILOT
Yesterday's earning's call mentioned a change in software for revenue management. The recent threads about huge increases in cost might be a reflection of that.
THAT could definitely explain it. There's definitely SOMETHING that changed.