Originally Posted by
DrAlex
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...
Sorry for the confusion, but that's what I meant:
Originally Posted by
nomiiiii
Alaska Airlines is really bad about releasing lower fare buckets earlier, and that's one reason I end up not booking with them as much as I want.
I was saying releasing T&R fare in general, not during the holidays. WN just opened the schedule to Jan 6 very recently so AS is attacking a lot of those fares. If you look at DAL-LAX, a highly competitive route in off peak periods like Jan-Feb, these fares aren't getting AS anywhere. AA has always done a wave of O fare when they first open the schedule for off peak periods. Usually even with the lowest bucket, they could only sell only a few seats per flight that far in advance anyways so it won't hurt their bottom line while capturing the people who wanted to plan early.
I can see releasing some T&R, especially midweek, far in advance can definitely help their RASM.