Originally Posted by
dlflyer00
And yes, people can be ticketed on the flight without an assigned seat — although in reality, I don’t think this happens very much outside of BE, which won’t matter for first.
Actually BE/main cabin sales do matter for many F fares now.
A lot of F fares now require dual inventory checks - so a Z fare may only be available if a V fare is also available at the same time in main.
Well, if there is only one economy ticket left i the dual inventory check that some fare rules now require on DL, this could also inhibit additional F availability in the low buckets.
This is mainly to avoid F pricing below Y due to varying cabin demand, basically ensuring F is always sold higher than the same available price for Y on that same routing (again, it’s not on all routes - yet - but is applied to many routes already)