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Old Mar 11, 2019, 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by hokiebuy
I feel her chances are pretty good, but P0 worries me.
Sometimes UA zeros P not because it thinks all the seats will sell, but to avoid sales of a heavily discounted P fare with no advance purchase requirement (or to prevent pax on P fares from SDCing out of a less favorable routing). I've seen this quite a bit on SFO-SIN, where UA simply would not open P within two weeks of departure, regardless how many open seats there were.

In this case, UA offers an exceptionally cheap zero day AP P fare DEL-EWR which is almost assuredly why you're seeing P0.
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