Originally Posted by
nomiiiii
E.g. I wanted to lock in an Austin-Seattle trip, where typical one-way pricing is alway $100-150. But if you look far in advance, alaska is only selling $500+ fares one-way on every single day. Fine, I'll book with delta instead who have released lower fare buckets already.
Could be that the AS RM team knows they will fill that plane anyway, whereas DL has problems filling that plane because they are a smaller carrier at SEA, so they are more aggressive on pricing.
If you figure that someone who wants to buy the cheapest possible fare off of Kayak ALWAYS exists in the market, trading an MVPG's way far in advance purchase who they have to expend costs on (free luggage, free changes, drink in main cabin, upgrade, etc.) for Kayak Dude three months later actually is a WIN for them ("Oh, you need to check luggage? $$$ please. Want a drink? $").
Originally Posted by
The ITDA
I can see releasing some T&R, especially midweek, far in advance can definitely help their RASM.
... assuming they can't otherwise fill that seat. Giving you a $50 advance purchase and not giving someone else a $500 close in purchase because the seat was sold to you is a bad trade for your RASM.
I've bought VX MCS tickets that were cheaper than MC. Way to go, VX, awesome way to maximize RASM- give me more stuff for a cheaper fare when I would have been fine paying the exact same $ for MC, possibly more (and I'm not the only one who saw that happen in markets).
So I wouldn't say AS RM is 100% clueless and VX RM knew what it was doing 100% of the time.