Originally Posted by
LAX_Esq
Well, it's a shame you can't sell that NFL ticket on StubHub if you can't make the new time
Oh wait, you'd probably be able to sell the ticket for more than face value if your game was transformed into the prime-time game of the week! But your airline flight? Sorry, non-transferrable!
You *may* be able to resell them for more money. You may also incur a steep loss or be out altogether if you’re unable to sell the tickets, especially if your game is the one moved out of prime time because the team stinks that season. Have you seen what Bengals and Browns tickets often go for late in the season? A few years ago there was an article that you could get a ticket to a Browns game for less than the price of a beer in the stadium at one point.
Originally Posted by
LAX_Esq
This is would be a rather poor rebuttal. Airlines know they can't possibly sell out their entire flights with expensive full-fare tickets, so they need to sell discount tickets some way or another. If they don't sell far-in-advance discount tickets, they'll need to sell discount tickets on some other basis.
There’s little value selling advance purchase tickets if the penalties the airline incurs for schedule changes begin to eat up all revenue they previously made on the discount tickets. Seems pointless for an airline to sell a $200-$250 ticket for a flight that may not finalized and then have to shell out $200 in a penalty to the customer. So the response may well be just not sell advance tickets then because such a model is suggesting a revenue approach that’s possibly worse than not selling tickets at all.
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