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Jun 29, 2018, 6:14 pm

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Originally Posted by Lomapaseo

I've been watching the holiday flights (Xmas, North East to Florida ) for buy-ups or even outright paid fare upgrades. They seem to have blocked most buy-ups to F as well as displaying no F seats available on their MD flights. If I do a dummy booking the F seats show all are available but the fare jumps to $1600-$1900 RT which of course is so unreasonable for the routing that nobody is buying it.

I am guessing that maybe they have not yet figured out what aircraft and routings will be available months from now and prefer not to encourage bookings in F until it gets sorted.

Any other ideas?

theyre playing chicken and betting the consumer will blink first. When I was looking at going to Florida last year at the holidays, coach tickets were $800-1000+ from the West Coast. They didn’t really drop. And I’d guess the flights went out full. I stayed home.

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