Originally Posted by
spongenotbob
ATL-SFO is a good test case. 14-30 days out all flights including connections; beyond 30 days, non-stops only. All significantly higher.
Sorry, not seeing it. $249 is the 14-day advance Y912TU fare cap. Is that the "high" price you are talking about? Here are DL non-stop's on ATL-SFO in June and July. While there are certainly days where the cap is being charged, there are other days where there is inventory in the lower price buckets (typically T/X/V) on some flights. The $149 fares are 21-day advance V basis BE fares (Tue/Wed) and $159 are same for other days of the week. These are the cheapest published fares on the route. Again, if you look past the month of July, then you can see there is V bucket on at least one flight everyday (as flights go from 3x daily in July to 10x daily in August as they have not reduced August schedule yet). This is just an artifact of inventory management struggling with the very limited schedule and not really some new strategy.
