Originally Posted by
The ITDA
To be honest, I miss VX revenue management team. They always have the right price at the right time (I usually buy tickets far out). It seems like AS revenue management doesn't release the first T or R fare until WN (or NK) open up the schedule.
I'm not much for knowledge in the area of how VX was doing on revenue, but it didn't sound like they were doing an awesome job... Most airlines have jacked up prices around holidays and it's hard to find T or R fares on AS or similar options on other airlines (see also June 29th/July 8th, September 1st/3rd, Xmas, thxgiving, easter...). There's plenty of R and T out there in the future - just look at Bay Area-NYC: everything past mid October that's not around a holiday is cheap as hell. They might not release R and T on the MCO routes because those are probably as popular if not more so than Hawaii and they know they can get more money for those tickets. Seems like intelligent revenue management to me, but I'm only in personal revenue management...