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DL Platinum
This is an example that I am seeing. If you look at seats there are plenty available, yet you cannot buy anything but a first class seat. Would love to know why?
Classic married segment logic. While flights may be mostly empty, if you look at bucket inventory on the individual flights, many only have H or higher bucket availability. DL has decided they can sell these coach seats for more money to multiple pax on non-stop or single connects rather than someone with a double-connect who is occupying seats on 3 flights and is thus simply zeroing out married segment coach inventory availability. I suppose one could argue they could at least offer some pricey Y bucket availability on these double-connects. ITA Matrix is pretty good at ferreting out some of the cheaper broken-fare options (layover longer than 4 hours) and more arcane routings, if you search over there. Most fare search engines (including delta.com) don't search broken-fare options very extensively.
