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Old Aug 30, 2020, 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by NYC Flyer
The 20% in your boat will likely endup making up 80% of the revenue loss through higher fares (either straight out, or through restrictions on booking classes for upgrades, less discounted inventory at popular business travel times of year/week/day etc). This will please customers that suffer a few changes per year where the change fee represents 30-40% of the ticket value. Carriers will look to the other group to make up the difference.

Clearly this is aimed at the population paying for their own tickets (leisure, small business) rather than corporate travel, so I suppose we can expect FFP changes, first class monetization, pricing to target elastic demand. Could the Saturday night stay make a comeback...?
This is the primary segment flying now. Business and government travel is largely mising from mid March. Airlines have to cater to the group that is buying the seats
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