Originally Posted by
Often1
If you insist on booking the two tickets into the same PNR, you will both be booked into the cheapest fare bucket which has at least 2 seats remaining.
Book the first ticket in whatever the cheaper fare bucket is and then go back and book the second ticket into the cheapest fare bucket available. You may even find that the second ticket books into something between #1 and what you were finding for 2 tickets.
This has zippo to do with DL or Thanksgiving.
If there is better pricing on AS and AS provides you with acceptable convenience, why on earth book anything else?
This is precisely what we found on Delta not long ago, but for Delta One, so the price differences were considerable. We did not book "two at the higher price".
We went back and booked one ticket at the low fare, and immediately went back, and sure enough, that next ticket was at the same *higher* price, so we went ahead and booked that. But at least we didn't need to pay the higher rate for both tickets.
We have seen that happen with other airlines, and as mentioned above, there has been nothing about holidays, and it's happened on several airlines. Most people won't notice it because it has to be a situation where there is ONLY one lower priced seat (assuming two tickets desired), and one would need to have searched first for a single seat to notice the change when one goes to purchase two.
And of course, it is also possible that the fare just changed or that someone *else* has purchased that single lower cost seat
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