Originally Posted by
timpolti1
trying to book a flight from Germany (Hamburg) to Taipei.
In 2018 BA's PE fares are/were around 600 Euros for one-way.
Well, for 2019 all the dates (I checked around 20 different ones)
the PE fare is actually more expensive than their business-class fare.
(which in 2019 is the same amount as in 2018, around 1.030 Euro one-way).
How this can be ?
I can't believe all of their PE seats are already taken.
By the way:
Their 2019 economy fares are roughly 100 Euro more expensive than in 2018
(for a one-way), so yeah, that might explain a higher PE fare, but ALL of their
published PE fares are higher than their business-class fare
Is that an IT-glitch somehow ?
Most Pricing and Revenue Management teams make the year farthest out more expensive to make the current year more attractive since they have less time to fill the current year; that's pretty standard across the board.
In terms of Club World being priced lower than World Traveller Plus, that may be due to the large size of BA's Club World cabins and they may want to make it look more attractive so that people book it and then as they get reach a certain load factor, they will make Club more expensive than Plus.