Originally Posted by
jsloan
Oops, sorry, my numbers are a little out of date. Using 2019 data, they made about $3BB in net income on about 1.8MM flights, so about $1,600 per flight. The $500 / flight number came from a few years earlier. (Of course, since the start of COVID, all airlines have been hemorrhaging money, but UA thinks they've turned the corner).
damn that's still way lower than I imagined. This makes IDB comps extremely costly to airlines then wow
Originally Posted by
jsloan
That's what I hope as well. At the moment, UA doesn't seem to be blinking much, although some prices are falling slightly as the travel date arrives.
for some routes the fares are definitely dropping (but just not ORD-SEA for some reason).
Originally Posted by
jsloan
(I re-fared a flight yesterday to save $40).
Same. Did one last week at T-7 days as UA published lower fare and saved $60 (off $220) round trip.
Also as a reminder for everyone else, if you have Break from Business fare and you want to re-fare, you need to cancel, get an FFC and make a new reservation for the discount to apply.